ABT. 5 GENERIC REVISION OF THE FOSSORIAL WASPS — PARKER 131 



Louisiana: East Point (October 7, 1907, F. C. Bishopp). 



New Mexico: Albuquerque. 



New York. 



Ohio: Cedar Point (August, J. B. Parlier). 



Oregon. 



Texas. 



Fox reports this species also from Camden County, N. J. 



BEMBIX COMANTIS, new species 



Figure 222 



Male. — Black: clypeus; labrum; base of mandibles; scape below; 

 space between antennae; small spot on either side of anterior ocel- 

 lus; anterior orbits, broad below, shortened above; narrow posterior 

 orbits abbreviated above; lateral spot on prothorax joined with spot 

 on tubercle ; fascia on pronotum ; short lateral line on scutum above 

 base of wing; narrow fascia on posterior border of scutellura; very 

 narrow fascia (almost obsolete) on posterior border of metanotum; 

 pair of triangular spots on posterior surface of propodeum; small 

 spot on lateral angle continuous with spot on side of propodeum; 

 pair of spots on metapleura ; small spot on mesopleura ; broad, con- 

 tinuous fasciae on tergites 1-5; first with broad medial anterior 

 emargination, deepest at midline; second, third, and fourth each 

 with broad anterior emargination and slight median notch; fifth 

 with shallow anterior biemargination ; median spot on sixth tergite ; 

 tip of seventh ; lateral spots on sternites 2-4, those on 2 and 3 con- 

 nected by narrow apical lines; spot on anterior coxa; femora in 

 part; tibiae, except line on first pair; and tarsi; fdle yellmo. 



The pubescence is white, long and dense on head, thorax, propo- 

 deum, and first segment of abdomen. The mandibles bear only a 

 single weak tooth. The flagellum is black above, testaceous below; 

 it shows no special modifications that can serve as specific charac- 

 ters. The legs show no special developments. The second sternite 

 bears a weakly developed madian carina and the sixth is plain. 



Length about 18 mm. Described from a single male from Rio de 

 Janeiro, Brazil. 



Type (male). — In the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Pa. 



BEMBIX BEUTENMULLERI Fox 



Bembex beutenmulleri Fox, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 9, 1901, p. 83. 

 Bemhex obsoleta Howard, Insect Book, 1904, pi. 4, fig. 36. 

 Bemhyx ohsoleta Rohwer, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, 1912, p. 467. 

 Bembix heufenmuUeri Parker, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 52, 1917, p. 105. 



The male of this species resembles the male of the pi'uinosa in hav- 

 ing the seventh sternite developed in the form of a grooved spine, 

 but differs from that species in having the maculations greatly re- 



