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bearing the label, "Guadalajara, VII, 27, Jal. Mex., McClendon," 

 and a second male bearin«f only the label, "Mexico." Handlirsch 

 based his description of the species on three females from Guana- 

 juato, Mexico. 



BEMBIX LITTORALIS Turner 



Bembex littoralis Tubner, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1910, p. 353. 



I have before me a single male of this species determined by Turner 

 and bearing the label, " Port Darwin, 12 '02." The clypeus, except a 

 very narrow apical border, is black and the frons, except a small area 

 between the antennae and a small spot on each side the anterior ocellus, 

 is likewise black. The thorax, except the narrow posterior border of 

 the pronotum and the tubercles, and the propodeum are entirely 

 black. The maculations on the abdomen are limited to widely sepa- 

 rated narrow fasciae on tergites 2-5 and lateral spots on sternites 

 2-4. The antennae are without structural modifications, the middle 

 femora are smooth below, the second and sixth sternites bear proc- 

 esses, and the seventh tergite is triangular in outline and roundly 

 pointed at the apex. 



BEMBIX INOPS Handlirsch 



Bembex inops Handlirsch, Sitz. Akad. Wissensch, Wien. Math.-Nat. CL, vol. 

 102, 1893, p. 833. 



I have before me a male and a female of this species identified by 

 Handlirsch and obtained by the United States National Museum as 

 an exchange. They bear the labe^, " Ihering, Rio Grande, Brasil." 

 As pointed out by Handlirsch, this species closely resembles Bembix 

 rrvultipicta Smith, of which species it may prove to be only a regional 

 variety. 



BEMBIX MULTIPICTA Smith 



Bembex multipicta Smith, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol, 12, 1873, p. 300. — Hand- 

 lirsch, Sitz. Akad. Wissensch, Wien, Math.-Nat. CL, vol. 102, 1893, p. 831.— 

 Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., vol. 8, 1897, p. 509. 



The fasciae on all tergites on both sexes are interrupted and that 

 on the second incloses, more or less perfectly, a pair of black discal 

 spots. On all specimens before me the scutum bears a pair of narrow 

 discal lines, much reduced on one female. On the specimens from 

 Mexico (two males and two females) the maculations on the thorax, 

 propodeum, and abdomen are white. On a single female from Brazil 

 the maculations are yellow, those on the tergites, the metanotura and 

 dorsum of propodeum being pale yellow. The three females agree in 

 having a more or less well developed dusky spot above on the apical 

 segment of all tarsi. The black on the legs is much more extensive 

 on the female from Brazil than on those from Mexico. 



