XI. SPHEX. 83 
Sp. 1. FLavipennis. Fab. 
nigra, fronte aured, abdomine rufo, petiolo apiceque atris, tarsis 
Serrugineis. 
length 7} lines. 
Fab. E. S. 2. 201.10; Latr. Hist. 13. 293.3; Jurine, 129. Pl. 8. Gen. 
5. fam. 2; Ahrens, Fauna Europ. 6. 18; V.d. L. pt. 1.94. 
Pepsis flavipennis, Fab. Piez. 210. 13. 
Black, delicately punctured, pubescent : head with the mandi- 
bles ferruginous and their apex piceous; the face covered with 
a dense aurichalceous pubescence. 
Thorax with the scutellum very prominent, and a longitudinal 
depression in the middle; the post-dorsolum lunulate, and also 
very elevated; the metathorax covered with a dense griseous 
hirsuties, which conceals its sculpture; the legs black, with the 
tarsi ferruginous—the anterior tarsi ciliated outside, and the 
intermediate and posterior tibia spinose; the tegule ferru- 
ginous; the wings fuscous, with their nervures rufo-piceous. 
The abdomen with the petiole and base of the first segment 
black ; the remainder of the first segment, and the second and 
third, red; the rest black, with their margins piceous. 
I am unacquainted with the ¢. 
@ in the Cabinet of Mr. Stephens. 
+4} This insect, which is unique as British, Mr. Stephens 
thinks was taken in Norfolk. 
Genus XII. Doticnurus. Latr.: 
Heap subglobose, of the width of the thorax, slightly depressed 
in front, convex posteriorly, having a tubercle rising abruptly 
at the base of the clypeus, concave on its superior surface ; 
eyes oval, placed at the sides of the head; stemmata seated 
near the vertex; antenne ‘filiform, longer than the thorax, 
inserted at the lateral angles of the tubercles of the face, the 
scape thick, and nearly as long as the third joint, the pedicle 
subglobose, the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth jomts subequal, 
the remainder regularly decreasing in length, and all from the 
G2 
