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HYMENOPTERA. 



14. Mygnimia Capensis. B.M. 



Sphex Capensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 942. 4. 



Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 216. 74. 

 Pompilus Capensis, Fahr. Syst. Fiez.^. 196. 46. 

 Hemipepsis Capensis, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 123. 1. 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope. 



15. Mygnimia Barbara. B.M. 



Pallosoma Barbara, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 495. 6. 

 Lucas, Ewplo. Sc. Alger, iii. 269. t. 14. f. 5. 



Hab. Algeria (Oran). 



16. Mygnimia Atropos. B.M. 



Female. Length 12 lines. — Black: the head and thorax 

 thinly clothed with black pubescence, that on the cheeks and 

 metathorax is long and loose ; the metathorax slightly convex 

 and transversely striate, having on each side a raised longitudinal 

 carina which is continued to the apex, not produced posteriorlv ; 

 wings very dark fuscous, with a brilliant purple iridescence, 

 varied with blue and chalybeous shades. Abdomen covered with 

 greenish-blue iridescent pile. 



Hab. Sierra Leone. (Coll. Rev. D. F. Morgan.) 



17. Mygnimia antennata. B.M. 



Female. Length 10 lines. — Black : the clypeus, labrum, palpi, 

 mandibles in the middle, femora towards their apex, tibiae and 

 tarsi, rufo-ferruginou§, the claws and extreme base of the apical 

 joints of the tarsi black ; the flagellum bright orange ; meta- 

 thorax rounded behind, transversely striate, most strongly so 

 towards the apex, and having in the centre a longitudinal im- 

 pressed line ; wings nearly black, with a splendid mixed irides- 

 cence of violet, blue and purple. Abdomen obscurely aeneous. 



Male. — Rather smaller than the female, the apical joints of 

 the flagellum slightly fuscous. 



Hab. Port Natal. 



18- Mygnimia vindex. B.M. 



Female. Length 17 lines. — Black: the antennae having the 

 apex of the joints obscm-ely ferruginous ; the clypeus having the 

 anterior margin widely emarginate. Thorax obscurely aeneous 

 anteriorly and also at the sides, the legs having in some lights 

 shades of blue ; wings dark fuscous, with a bright violet irides- 



