396 Mr. R. E. Turner on Fossorial Hymenoptera. 
Pal. Beauv., and the colouring is also very different. The 
male genitalia are also different, the stipes being narrower 
and more acute at the apex than in tenuis. The pulvillus is 
absent in tenuis. 
Sphex dolichoderus, Kohl. 
Ammophila dolichodera, Kohl, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxxiii. 
p. 383 (1883). 3. 
Ammophila pulchricollis, Cam. Ann. Transvaal Mus, ii, p. 183 
(1910). o, 
According to Dr. Brauns, Cameron’s type is a female. 
Kohl, in his table a few pages before the description of 
delichodera, gives the name of the species as macrocola. 
Probably he originally intended to use this name and changed 
it in the description, but neglected to make the alteration in 
the table. 
Sphee ferrugineipes, Lep. 
Ammophila ferrugineipes, Lep. Hist. nat. Insect. Hymen. ili. p. 388 
(1845). 9. 
Ammophila dunbrodyensis, Cam. Rec. Albany Mus. i. p. 822 (1905). 
Sphex basalis, Sm. 
Ammophila basalis, Sm. Cat. Hym. B.M. iv. p. 214 (1856). Q. 
Ammophila nigripes, Sm. Cat. Hym. B.M. iv. p. 215 (1856). ¢. 
Sphex (Coloptera) tuberculiscutis, sp. n. 
@. Nigra; mandibulis, apice excepto, clypeo, antennis articulis 
sex basalibus, prothorace, mesonoto lateribus, mesopleuris macula 
sub alis, tegulis, scutello, postscutello, tergito secundo leviter 
nigro suffuso, petiolo subtus, sternitis pedibusque, femoribus 
supra nigrolineatis, ferrugineis; alis sordide hyalinis, flavo- 
suffusis, venis nigris; pronoto fere polito, antice subexcavato, 
utrinque tuberculato, postice in medio obsolete transverse striato, 
mesonoto transverse striato; scutello postscutelloque longitu- 
dinaliter striatis, postice productis, lamellato-tuberculatis. 
3. Femine similis, tergito secundo nigro, basi fusco-ferrugineo ; 
clypeo apice in tuberculo producto. 
Long., @ 21-22, ¢ 22-25 mm. 
@?. Mandibles with one large, broad, blunt tooth on the 
inner margin, clypeus broadly subtruncate at the apex. 
Eyes almost parallel on the inner margins ; posterior ocelli 
almost as far from each other as from the eyes; front not 
concave, without a distinct longitudinal sulcus; the face and 
sides of the clypeus clothed with very delicate pale golden 
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