HYMENOPTERA. 271 



and two pairs at the apex, of which the upper ones are very 



short and acute. 



Hab. South America. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



41. CcELioxYS Cayennensis. 



Ccelioxys Cayennensis, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. (1841) 144. 

 95; 'Faun! Chili. \'\. 190. 1. 



Hah. Cayenne. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



42. Ccelioxys pr^texta. 



Ccelioxys pra^texta, Halid. Linn. Trans, xvii. 320. 15 (1837). 

 Hab. St. Catherine's. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



43. Ccelioxys abdominalis. «-«*»- B.M. 

 Ccelioxys abdominalis, Guer. Icon. Reg. Anim. Lis. 453. 



Ha6. Isle of St. Thomas. :<v»'-*'; ' 



44. Ccelioxys rufipes. 



Ccelioxys rufipes, Guer. Icon. Reg. Anim. Ins. 452. tab. 73. f. 9. 

 Hab. Cuba, 



45. Ccelioxys modesta. B.M. 



Female. Length 4^ lines. — Black, head and thorax covered 

 with large distinct punctures, the face covered with white pubes- 

 cence. Thorax, a line on the collar, a spot behind the tegulse, 

 and a line at the base of the scutellum of white pubescence ; the 

 sides of the metathorax have some long white hairs, and the legs 

 above are covered with very short white pubescence, the legs 

 rufo-testaceous, as well as the tegulse and nervures of the wings, 

 the latter fusco-hyaline, darkest towards their apical margins ; 

 the scutellum rounded behind and armed on each side with a 

 short bent tooth. Abdomen shining, the punctures scattered, 

 all the segments have fasciae of white pubescence, frequently 

 interrupted ; the apical segment has the lower plate broad, 

 rounded at the apex, and having a minute point in the middle, 

 the margins of the plate fringed with fuscous pubescence. 



Hab. United States. 



16. Ccelioxys rufitarsus. B.M. 



Male. Length 5j lines. — Black, the head and thorax coarsely 

 punctured, the face covered with white pubescence, the cheeks 

 and the thorax beneath have a long white pubescence as well as 



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