HYMENOPTERA. 



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Ampulex compressa, Jurine, Hym. p. 134 (1807). 



St. Farg. Encycl. Meth. x. 450; Hym. iii. 325. 1. 



Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 2\). 1. 

 Guepe Ichneumon, Reaum. Ins. vi. 280. t. 28. f. 2, 3. 



Ha6. India; China; Isle of France ; Java. 



The neuration of the wings is very inconstant in this species, 

 particularly in small examples of the male ; the ty])ical number 

 of submarginal cells is three, but the first transverse cubital 

 nervure is frequently obsolete, or partly so, thus making the 

 number two. 



2. Ampulex Sibirica. B.M. 

 Sphex sibirica, Fabr.Ent. Syst. ii. 207.33, & Cat. Mus. Linn. Soc. 

 Chlorion sibiricum, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 218. 4. 



Am])ulex corapressiventris, Guer. Icon. Reg. Anim. iii. t. 70. f. 4. 

 Ampulex Guerini, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 29. 2. 



Hab. Siberia? (Fa6r.); Malabar; Senegal; Sierra Leone; The 

 Gambia. 



3. Ampulex cuprea. B.M. 

 Male. Length 4^ lines.— Brassy-green, varying in tint in 



different lights ; the carina on the face entire, arched, and pro- 

 duced at the apex; the head deeply rugose-punctate. The 

 l)rothorax is transversely rugose-striate above, the sides being 

 roughly punctured ; the mesothorax covered with large deep 

 punctures ; the metathorax has a central carina which terminates 

 before the apex; on each side is an abbreviated oblique one and 

 a second entire obUque carina which unite at the apical margin 

 of the truncation by a short transverse one ; the lateral margins 

 are raised, and the apical angles terminate in a stout bent 

 tooth; the wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures fusco- 

 ferruginous. Abdomen shining, and having a few scattered delicate 

 punctures. 

 Hab. China (Hong Kong). 



In the Museum are two exam])les of this species ; in both the 

 first recurrent nervure is obsolete. 



4. Ampulex cyanipes. 



Chlorion cyanipes, Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iii. 230 <? ; 



Arc. Ent. ii. 65. t. 65. 

 Hab. Cape of Good Hope. 



