oj Aculeate Hijmcnoptera of Japan. 199 
The specimens fi-om Hiogo, and also those from Hako 
dadi, diftei' from the type of Saussure, and all the varieties 
he enumerates, in wanting the dark macuh\3 on the anterior 
wings ; but that author considers them all specifically the 
same. 
ANTHOPHILA. 
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ANDRENIDyE. 
Genus Peosopis, Fab. 
1. Prosopis jloralis. 
Female. Length 3 lines. Black: head and thorax 
closely punctured ; abdomen smooth and shining. Head : 
a triangular spot on each side of the face, and a longi- 
tudinal stripe down the clypeus, pale yelloAv ; the flagellum 
ferruginous beneath. Thorax ; a narrow line on the collar, 
the tubercles and a spot on the tegulje in front, pale 
yellow ; the anterior tibife in front, and the extreme base 
of the intermediate pair, ferruginous; the base of the 
posterior tibiae pale yelloAV ; wings hyaline, their nervin*es 
black. The apical margins of the segments of the ab- 
domen narrowly testaceous. 
The male is rather smaller ; has the face white, as Avell 
as the lower half of the scaj^e of the antennce, Avhicli is 
short and dilated ; the anterior tibife, the base of rest, and 
the tarsi, very pale yelloAv. 
Hah, — Hiogo. / 
2. Prosopis perforata. V 
Female. Length 3 lines. Very like " fioralis^'' but 
differing in having the head longer, the clypeus with the 
anterior margin pale, and Avithout the central stripe ; the 
collar Avith a pale interrupted fascia ; the base of the meta- 
thorax coarsely rugose ; the truncation abrupt, and AA'ith 
its margins someA\'hat raised ; the extreme base of the an- 
terior and intermediate tibise pale ; one-third of the basal 
portion of the posterior tibiiE yelloAvish-AAdiite. 
Hal). — Hakodadi. 
Genus Sphecodes, Latr. y/ 
1. Sphecodes simillimus. 
Female. Length 3^ lines. In colouring as Avell as 
in puncturing this insect exactly corresponds Avith the 
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