SPHEX. 245 



margin transverse in the middle, oblique, slightly arched at the 

 sides ; front with a vertically impressed line ; median segment 

 loug, roundly truncate posteriorly, and rather coarsely trans- 

 versely striate under the thick pile. Light t'errugiuous or 

 brownish red ; the apex of the mandibles remarkably long, acute, 

 and black ; Hagellum of antenute black ; abdomen with the apical 

 margins of the 2nd and following segments sordid testaceous 

 white ; the head, the thorax, legs, especially the coxae and tro- 

 chanters, the petiole, and the basal segment of the abdomen with 

 dense glittering, rather long silvery pubescence ; wings clear 

 hyaline. 



Hah. Northern India. $ . Leiujtli 29 ; exp. 43 mm. 



Kohl (l. c.) unites this species with Sphex nigropectlnatus, 

 Taschenbg., but the type and only specimen in the British Museum 

 collection does not agree with Taschenbergs description of his 

 species. 



459. Sphex segyptius, Lepd. Hym. iii, p. 356 ; Kohl, Ann. Naturhist. 



Hofmiis. Wien, v, 1890, p. 351, $ <j'- 

 Sphex sorer, Dahlh. Hym. Eur. i, p. 436. 

 Harpactopus crudelis, Smith, Cat. iv, p. 264. pi. vi, fig. 4. 

 Sphex grandis, Radoszk. Hor. Soc. JSnt. Jioss. xii (1876), p. 132. 



5 . Head densely pilose, with scattered pubescence ; meso- 

 notum punctured ; median segment long, cylindrical, transversely 

 striate, with thick long pubescence, its apex posteriorly concavely 

 truncate ; legs stout, loug, thickly spinose ; abdomen smooth and 

 shining ; clypeus boldly convex, its anterior margin transverse, 

 depressed, and notched in the middle. Black, with black pu- 

 bescence, the front of the head and face with dense silvery 

 pile ; wings flavo-hyaline, broadly pale, clear hyaline along 

 the apical margin of fore and apical and posterior margin of hind 

 wing. 



cJ similar but smaller, with the clypeus bilobed. 



Hab. Syria ; Arabia ; Egypt ; Abyssinia ; Mauritius ; Southern 

 India, Madras. $ . Length 26-34 ; expj. 48-52 mm. S • Lenglh 

 22-2^ ; exp. 42-44 mm. 



460. Sphex vicinus, Lejvl. Hym. iii, p. 343, 5 ; Smith, Cat. iv, p. 253 ; 



Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Fh. Soc. (4) ii, 1889, p. 108; Kohl, Ann. 

 Naturhist. H of in us. Wien, v, 1890, p. 454. 

 Sphex rothiieyi, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Fh. Soc. (4) ii, 1889, pp. 108 

 & 112. 



$ . Head, thorax, and the petiole of the abdomen densely 

 pruinose, rest of the abdomen smooth and shining ; clypeus broad, 

 convex, with an indistinct medial vertical carina, the anterior 

 margin rounded ; prouotiim not furrowed ; sciitellum and post- 

 scutellum with slight indications of a medial dejiression ; median 

 segment with coarse broad transverse strioB ; legs long and spinose ; 

 petiole of abdomen short. Head, thorax, coxa?, and trochanters 



