746 Mr. Rowland E. Turner 07i netv 



Kakunga Forest, 4,800-5,300 ft.. May 21-28; Uganda 

 Protectorate, between Seziwa River and Kampala, 8,500 ft., 

 August 27-81 ; Banks of the Nile near Kakindu, 3,400 ft., 

 August 24 (S. A. Neave) : Entebbe, Uganda, August 22 

 {C\0. Gowdcy). 



The difiference in the sculpture of the enclosed area at 

 the base of the median seoinent in the sexes is fjreater 

 than is usual in the genus. 



Sub-family SPHECINAE. 

 Spliex (Chloriooi) xanthocerus, 111., var. unicolor, Sauss. 



Sphex unicolor, Sauss,, Reise d. Novara, Zool, II, p. 37 



(1867). 

 Sphex xanthocerus var. itnicolor, Kohl, Ann. naturh. Hofmns. 



Wien, V, p. 185 (1890). 

 Sphex massaicus, Cam., Sjostedt's Kilimandjaro-Meru Exp., 



II, p. 262 (1912). 



Sub-family BEMBECINAE. 



Bemhex coiiipedita, nom. nov. 



Bernbex kohli, Turn., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), IX, 

 p. 415 (1912), $ {nee Morice, 1897). 



The name hohli is preoccupied and must sink, as has 

 been pointed out to me by Mr. Rohwer. 



Bemhex ugandensis, sp. n. 



^ . Niger ; mandibulis apice excepto, clypeo late marginibua, 

 labro, orbitis oculorum, macula parva transversa utrinque sub ocello 

 antico, ijedibusque plus minusve nigro-variegatis flavis ; segmento 

 mediano linea arcuata angulisque, segmentis dorsalibus primo 

 secundoque, apice maculisque duabus transversis nigris, segmentoque 

 tertio macula transversa arcuata utrinque pallida flavo-olivaceis ; 

 oculis versus clypeum paulum divergentibus, segmento ventrali 

 secundo tuberculo longitudinali parvo, sexto apice acute prcducto. 



$ . Mari simillima. 



Long. (^ $ , 23 mm. 



(J . Clypeus subcarinate at tlie base, triangularly flattened at the 

 apex ; the eighth and ninth joints of the flagellum short and with a 

 spine beneath, the tenth and eleventh joints concave beneath, but 

 not broadened, the apical joint mucli longer than the penultimate, 

 moderately curved, narrowed to the apex and slightly hollowed 

 beneath at the base. Basal joint of the anterior tarsi with six spines 



