hymenoptera. 261 



91. Sphex caliginosa. 



Sphex caliginosa, Erichs. Faun, und Fl. Brit. Guiana, iii. 589. 

 Hab. British Guiana. 



92. Sphex latro. 



Sphex latro, Erichs. Faun, und Fl. Brit. Guiana, iii. 588. 

 Hab. British Guiana. 



93. Sphex singularis. B.M. 



Male. Length 9 lines. — Black : the face densely covered with 

 golden pubescence, the vertex and cheeks with a long thin pale 

 yellow pubescence. Thorax clothed with long thin pale golden 

 pubescence ; the prothorax above, the post-scutellum, and an 

 epaulet over the tegulse of short bright golden pile; the legs 

 with a fine changeable silky pile, most dense on the coxae and 

 posterior tibise within ; the wings hyaline, with a pale fuscous 

 cloud at their apical margins and a darker one beyond the mar- 

 ginal cell ; the third submarginal cell subpetiolate. The abdomen 

 has an obscure chalybeous tinge, with a little silky pile at the base. 



Hab. Honduras. 



94. Sphex Pennsylvanica. B.M. 



Sphex Pensylvanica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 941. 3. 



De Geer, Ins. iii. 586. 2. t. 30. f. 2. 



Fabr. Syst. Ent. 346. 3; Ent, Syst. ii. 201. 11. 



Pal. de Beauv. Ins. Afric. et Amer. p. 116. t. 3. f. 4. 



Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 25. 4. 



St. Farg. Hym. iii. 335. 3. 

 Pepsis Pensylvanica, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 211. 15. 

 Sphex Servillei, -S^. Farg. Hym. iii. 336. 5 S . 



Hab. North America ; Pennsylvania. 



.95. Sphex ichneumonea. B.M. 



Sphex ichneumonea, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 959. 36. 



De Geer, Ins. ii. 759. t. 32. f. 13. 17. 



Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 207. 34. 



Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 26. 10. 



St. Farg. Hym. iii. 346. 19. 



Erichs. Faun, und Fl. Brit. Guiana, iii. 589. 

 Chlorion ichneumoneum, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 219. 6. 



Hab. North America; St. John's Bluflf, East Florida; South 

 Carolina. 



