XII. New or little-known Sphegide from Ugur By 
the Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A., F.E.S 
[Read June 2nd, 1897. ] 
Prats VI. 
THE insects to be described below were taken by myself 
near Cairo in the spring of last year (1896). Herr Kohl, 
of Vienna, kindly allowed me to send any of my captvres 
for examination either by himself or by his colleague, 
Herr Handlirsch, and I have described as new such 
species only as were pronounced to be so by one or 
other of these entomologists. For the accuracy of my 
descriptions, however, I must take the sole responsi- 
bility, though I have received useful hints from my 
friend and neighbour, Mr. Hdward Saunders, besides 
suggestions from Herren Kohl and Handlirsch as to the 
affinities of particular insects, and have also of course 
been helped at every step by the published works of 
these authors on the Sphegide. As to the names and 
arrangement of genera I have followed Herr Kohl’s 
“Gattungen der Sphegiden,” just published at Vienna. 
In the descriptions, also, I have mainly adopted his 
nomenclature; but in numbering the abdominal seg- 
ments I have not reckoned the propodeum, so that my 
*‘ seoment 1” is that which follows the constriction, and 
so on. 
My figures are drawn from the type-specimens with 
the camera lucida under low powers of the compound 
microscope. ‘Though [ am no draughtsman, I believe 
that the outlines of the objects as I saw them are 
correctly given, but a more practised artist would (L 
daresay ) have managed to place them so as to escape the 
appearance of asymmetry, which I have not always been 
able to avoid. 
The most interesting, perhaps, of these insects is the 
new species of Kohlia, ¢ and @, as that genus has 
rested hitherto on a single 2 specimen from South 
Africa in the Berlin Museum (K. cephalotes, Handl.). 
The Tachysphex (?) with entire mandibles and a strongly 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1897.—ParT Ill, (SEPT.) 
