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the second, apical joint shorter than the preceding; emargination of 

 the pronotum strongly arcuate; scutellum narrowed posteriorly, the 

 cephal-caudad length distinctly greater than the width; propodeum 

 obliquely truncate posteriorly, the spiricals elongate, arcuate; thorax 

 dull, impunctate; venation and legs very like the genotype of Enty- 

 pus (Entypus ochraceus Dahlbom), legs perhaps more strongly spined; 

 inner claw tooth large, robust, obliquely truncate at the apex; 

 abdomen dull, finely scratched. Entirely black; coxae, and basal part 

 of all the dorsal segments with silvery pile; wings strongly dusky, the 

 apex and area basad of stigma darker; venation dark brown. 



Type-locality. — Horisha, Formosa. One male collected by Mr. 

 T. Fukai. 



Type.— Cat. no. 13376, U.S.N.M. 



Superfamily SPHECOIDEA Ashmead. 

 Family SPHECID^. 



PROTEROSPHEX NIGRIPES (Smith), variety. 



Apparently a large specimen of variety erythropoda Cameron, being 

 22 mm. long. One male. 



SCELIPHRON MADRASPATANUS (Fabricius). 



One male. 



Family PHILANTHIDiE. 



CERCERIS FUKAII, new species. 



Perhaps closest to Cerceris pentadonta Cameron, but is much more 

 coarsely sculptured than that species and hardly belongs to the same 

 group. A yellow band on the third and sixth segments ; femora black; 

 tegulse reddish yellow; with large, sometimes confluent, punctures. 



Male. — Length 8.5 mm. Clypeus flat, the apical middle truncate; 

 carina between the antennae short, sharp, and pointed; inner eye 

 margins nearly parallel; ocelH in a low triangle; postocellar line 

 subequal with the ocelloccipital line, but distinctly longer than the 

 ocellocular line; scape short and curved; first joint distinctly longer 

 than the second, apical joint normal and subequal in length with the 

 preceding; head with large, distinct punctures, below the antennae 

 the punctures are smaller and just above the antennae they are 

 confluent ; thorax with punctures somewhat larger than those on the 

 head, on the mesonotum confluent; mesosternum not spined; 

 inclosure of the propodmim with a median channel, the sided with 

 short oblique striae; venation normal; legs very feebly spined, the 

 post-basitarsis nearly as long as the following joints ; first abdominal 

 segment but little longer than wide ; seventh dorsal segment distinctly 

 margined laterally, apex truncate ; seventh ventral segment arcuately 



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