er 
124 Rev. F. D. Morice on 
STIZUS FULIGINOSUS, KI. 
1 2. Biskra, on Ammi visnaga, 31. v, 93. <A. E. E. 
294,429. Biskra, on Ammi visnaga, 28. v to 22. vi, 
Die Avie Er 
2 od. Biskra, 23; ¥ and 6, vi, 98. -F)/M. 
The wings in one of Mr. Eaton’s $f are discoloured in 
a very singular manner. The infuscation has vanished 
entirely from the middle of every “cellule,” but remains 
persistent at their edges. Consequently every nerve and 
vein appears thickened and blurred ; as though one should 
make a pen-and-ink sketch of the neuration, and dry it 
hastily with imperfectly absorbent blotting-paper! This 
seems to have happened before, and not after, the death of 
the insect. 
SPHECIUS INTERMEDIUS, Hdl. 
1 ¢@. Biskra, on Ammi visnaga, 29. v, 9 
1 2. Biskra, on Amma visnaga, 26. v, 9 
1 2: iBiskra; 20\sv.- 08:08 1: IME 
My 2 was determined long ago by Herr Kohl as prob- 
ably the undescribed 2 of intermedius. Mr. Eaton’s 9 
agrees with it, and his f answers to Handlirsch’s description. 
(The apical sinuation of the last antennal joint below is 
so slight that it might easily be overlooked, and the joint 
supposed to be sinuated once only !) 
This 9—still, I believe, undescribed—is coloured just like 
the g, and has the upper wings similarly clouded along 
their upper margin (more narrowly and indefinitely than 
in hemixanthopterus described below). The antennae 
have their scapes flavous in front, black behind; the 
flagellum is fulvous simply at its base; but towards the 
apex the colour grows more and more dusky, and the apical 
and two penultimate joints are practically quite black. 
The orbits of the eyes are very narrowly yellow. The more 
apical yellow fasciae on the abdomen are scarcely visible 
in Mr. Eaton’s dreadfully discoloured 9,in my own they 
are bright and well defined, those on segments 1 and 2 
are largely interrupted, that on segment 3 narrowly so, 
the rest continuous (though, in certain positions only, 
they Jook interrupted), those on segments 4 and 5 are 
bisinuate on their basal margins (but much less deeply so 
than in S, /wniger), and that on segment 3 incloses a little 
Ayo) Ay ie 
4. A.B. E. 
