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second including a pair of black spots; the sixth tergite bears a 

 median spot. The pubescence is white and is well developed on the 

 head, thorax, and propodeum. On the tergites the pubescence is hne 

 and short on the anterior part of the abdomen, but increases in length 

 posteriorly until on tlie sixth and seventh tergites it is quite long and 

 conspicuous. 



Handlirsch gives the distribution of this species as follows: 

 " Neider-Guinea : Cap Lopez, Junk River, Gabun, Landana, Chin- 

 choua und Vista an der Congomiinding." 



BEMBIX RAPTOR Smith 



Benibex raptor Smith, Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1856, p. 326. — Handlirsch, 

 Sitz. Akad. Wissen.scli. Wieu, Math.-Nat. CI., vol. 102, 1893, p. 901.— Dalla 

 ToBBB, Cat. Hym., vol. 8, 1897, p. 511. — TimNEn, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 

 8, vol. 16, 1915, p. 446. 



I have before me a male and a fernale that, in Turner's " Key to the 

 Australian Species of Bembex," nm to this species. The male con- 

 forms quite closely to Smith's description of the species. The scutum 

 bears a broken U-shaped discal mark, which shows only a trace of 

 fuscous. The propodeum above is black. The black on the clypeus 

 is confined to a narrow dorsal border. The antenna is without modi- 

 fications. The sixth tergite is truncate at the apex and also plainly 

 emarginate. This specimen bears the label, " Gordonvale, N. Q., J. F. 

 lllingworth. Coll. Ex." 



Of the female the prothorax, the sides of the mesothorax, meta- 

 thorax, and propodeum are entirely yellow. There is a prominent 

 U-shaped discal mark (decidedly rufous) on the scutum, prominent 

 fascia on scutellum, metanotum, and propodeum. The fasciae on 

 tergites 1-5 are broad, the first notched at the middle on the anterior 

 border, the others at the middle on the posterior border, and all more 

 or less bisinuate on the anterior border. The sixth tergite bears 

 conspicuous lateral spots. Sternites 2-5 really bear broad fasciae, 

 which are all but interrupted by large black spots that occupy the 

 middle areas of the sternites. Sternite 6 bears lateral spots. The 

 punctures on the black area of the second sternite are very large and 

 not closely placed. The specimen bears the label, " N. W-Australien, 

 Carlshalton, E. Clement S. V." Turner reports this species as the 

 most common one of central Australia. 



BEMBIX BRULLEI Gucrin 



Bembex brullei Guerin, Voyage de la Coquille, Zool., vol. 2, 1830, p. 253.— 

 Handliesch, Sitz. Akad. Wissensch. Wien, Math.-Nat. CI., vol. 102, 1893, 

 p. 835.— Daula Tokre, Cat. Hym., vol. 8, 1897, p. 503. 



The male of this species, with its black thorax and propodeum, 

 richly pubescent and with few or no maculations and with its shining 

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