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the top, which is a little longer than the top of the third 

 cellule, the latter being very much narrowed at the top, the 

 bottom being more than twice the length of the second 

 cellule, and its apex reaches near to the apex of the radial 

 cellule. The first recurrent nervure is received a little 

 beyond the middle of the cellule ; the second quite close to 

 the second transverse cubital nervure. 



Sphex aurulenta, Fab. 



A variable species. The commonest Bengal form is 

 the var. aiumlenta Fab. = Fabricii, Dbm. ^ femiginea, 

 'Le^.=godefroyi, Saussure. The var. sericea, \^q'^. = Lepele- 

 tierii, Sauss. also occurs ; but I have not seen any Indian 

 specimens that could be referred to the var. sericea Fab.= 

 ferox Smith, a form chiefly distinguishable from var. Lepc- 

 letierii by the hair on the pleurae and middle segment being 

 blackish-brown. The S from Bengal is the typical lincola 

 Lep. The hair on the head and thorax is hoary white; 

 the wings are hyaline, smoky at the apex ; the abdomen 

 black, the base and the segments at the apices above and 

 beneath reddish ; the tegulae and legs are blackish. A $ var. 

 also is met with ; it has the legs red, except at the base and 

 the tarsi : the tegulae are red ; the hair cinereous ; and the 

 abdomen may be red from the petiole, or red only at the 

 base as in the typical Hneola. This does not quite agree 

 with the description of >Sf. velox, Smith, which has the hair 

 fulvous. 



Sphex erythropoda, sp. iwv. 



Nigra, fusco pitbescens ; pedibiis rufis ; basi apiceqiie 

 tarsortun, nigris ; alis flavo-hyalinis, apice fninatis. Long. 

 15 — 18 mm. 



Antenna of the usual length ; covered with a sericeous 

 pile ; the third joint not much shorter than the fourth and 

 fifth united. Head shining, bearing a scattered punctua- 



