1904.] 201 



nearly glabrous, scutcUuiii ami |)i-o|)(Kk'mii more or less hairy, the latter with a 

 very deep central impression. Winga slighlly dusky with a darker ajjical band, 

 2nd and 3rd subniarginal cells subequal, slightly narrowed at the top. ll'ind-wings 

 with the posterior nerve almost or quite anastomising with the branch of the 

 median. Legs with the posterior inner ealcar about two-thirds as long as the meta- 

 tarsus, which latter is more than twice as long as the 2nd tarsal joint, claws simple, 

 i.e., with onlj' the ordinary basal dilatation. Abdomen with its apical ventral valve 

 carinatcd, the carina considerably raised and hairy towards the apex, its lateral 

 margins set with short bristly hairs much as in .iplssu.s; but the segment, viewed 

 laterally, is longer and much less raised and triangular than in that species. 



9 . In this sex the erect hairs are rather more developed than in the <J , the 

 pruinose pubescence less so, the 3rd antennal joint is distinctly longer than the 4th 

 and much longer than the scape, and four times at least as long as the 2nd. The 

 head, looked at vertically, is wide and very slightly convex in front, in form 

 resembling tliat of unguicularits, the lateral interval between the head and pro- 

 thorax is also filled up with hairs as in that species, hairs of the propodeum more 

 developed that in the $ , comb of anterior metatarsus with three well developed 

 spines about as long as the 2nd tarsal joint, the posterior metatarsus about as long 

 as the two following joints, comb of the claw joint well developed, apical segment 

 and ventral segment of the abdomen with a few long hairs. Long., 9—11 mm. 



At first sight I thought this might be the excisus, Perez [Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 

 Ixiii, p. 197 (1894)], but he compares his species with spissus, with which it has no 

 connection, as it belongs to the section having a well developed comb on the anterior 

 tai'si, and although the apical margins of the segments of the abdomen are certainly 

 very slightly emarginate they are not more so than in some other species of the 

 genus. I should consider it as a very close ally of ungukularis, but the gi-cater 

 hairiness and moi-e developed grey pubescence, as well as the very distinct $ char- 

 acters, separate it easily from that species. 



1 ? , Giiimar, 21.iii.04. ; alt. about 1200. 5 <? , 22 and 24.iii.04. ; locality as for 

 Scolia elegans, same date ; Forest of La Mina, 1 ? , 9.iv.04. 



3. Tachtsphex simonyi. Kohl. 2 <? 2 ? . Giiimar, 22.iii.0k; locality as for 



Scolia elegans, same date. 1 ? , Forest of La Mina ; 2700—2800 alt. ; 9.iv.04. 

 1 ? , Santa Cruz ; 800—1000 alt. ; 4.iv.04. 



4. SOLEEIELLA CANAEIENSIS, Sp. IIOV. 



Niger, mandihuUs, tarsis, tihiisque ^wslicis hasi tc.ilacci>i. Mandihulis 

 simplicihus, alarum cellula secunda cubitali x>arva, suhicquilatcrali petiolata, 

 petiola ccllulce laterihus ccqui-lon(fa, ncrvis recurvcntibiis ex cellidls prima 

 et secunda cuhitalihus emissis. 



<J . Entirely black, except the mandibles, tarsi and the base of the posterior 

 tibisB, which are testaceous, head shining on the vertex, where it is somewhat 

 largely and deeply punctured, but not so very closely, dull on the face, which 

 is exceedingly closely punctured, the lower half of the latter clothed with white 

 hairs, eyes diverging anteriorly, face with a fine impressed line above the insertion 

 of the antenna, clypeus raised and shining in the centre, the apex produced into a 



