2U2 3Ir. F. Smith on ueic Species 



femora ferruginous. Head densely clothed with golden-coloured 

 pubescence, the cheeks with long hairs of the same colour. 

 Thorax smooth and shining above, the sides and also beneath 

 thinly clothed with long golden-coloured pubescence ; it is 

 much more dense on the metathorax, on the sides, and towards 

 the apex ; the base of the metathorax transversely striated ; 

 the postscutellum bituberculate ; wings hyaline, the nervures 

 black, the apical margin of the superior pair faintly clouded ; 

 a dark fuscous spot at the apex of the marginal cell ; the 

 tibiae and tarsi very spinose. Abdomen black, with a faint 

 tinge of blue. 



Hab. Sierra Leone. 



Genus Ampulex, Jurine. 

 Ampulex apicalis. 



Female. Length 6 lines. Varied with tints of blue and 

 green, the scape of the antennas and apex of the abdomen 

 ferruginous. Head blue or green, covered with deep confluent 

 punctures ; the clypeus and mandibles ferruginous ; the cly- 

 peus with a sharp carina in the middle, its anterior margin 

 subangular. The pro- and mesothorax with large confluent 

 punctures, the former slightly narrowed towards the head ; 

 the metathorax transverse, the posterior lateral angles dentate, 

 the superior surface Avith a raised margin, a central longitu- 

 dinal carina that runs from the base a little beyond the middle, 

 where it divides into a fork which runs to the posterior mar- 

 gin, on each side are three oblique carinas, between the carina? 

 coarsely striated ; wings fuscous, with a hyaline fascia cross- 

 ing the superior pair at the base of the first submarginal cell ; 

 the apex of the wing is subhyaline. Abdomen smooth and 

 shining, delicately and sparingly punctured, the three apical 

 segments ferruginous. 



Hab. South Africa (Zulu country). 



This species belongs to the section of the genus Ampulex 

 which has only two submarginal cells. 



Genus Dolichurus, Latr. 



Dolichurus Irnvis. 



Female. Length 4 lines. Black, smooth and shining, the 

 abdomen brightest. Head very closely and very delicately 

 punctured, with a few irregularly intermixed larger punc- 

 tures ; a tubercle in the middle of the face concave above, 

 with its anterior margin whitish ; the palpi, base of the man- 

 dibles, and the clypeus yellowish white, the anterior margin 



