HYMENOPTERA. 225 



Miscus campestris, Van d. Lind. Obs. i. 93. 1. 



Shuck. Foss. Hym. 80. \. 



Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 7- 9. 



St. Fare/. Hym. iii. 386. t. 30. f. 5. 



Steph. Illust. vii. S/>p. p. 15. t. 41. f. 4. 



Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. p. 70. 1. 

 Sphex campestris, Zett. Ins. Lapp. 436. 3. 



2. Miscus NEOXEXUS. B.M. 



Female. Length 8 lines. Black: the head smooth, slightly 

 shining, the face densely covered with short silvery pile ; a thin 

 silky pile covers the vertex ; a central impressed line in front of 

 the anterior stemma extending to the insertion of the antennae ; 

 the clypeus has a shining naked space in the middle anteriorly. 

 Thorax : the pro- and mesothorax subrugose and thinly covered 

 with short white silky pubescence ; the scutellum longitudinally 

 rugose ; the enclosed space on the metathorax obliquely striated, 

 the sides have a thin silky short white pubescence ; the sides of 

 the breast and the tubercles densely covered with bright glit- 

 tering silvery pubescence ; the wings subhyaline, the nervures 

 fuscous ; the stigma, extreme base of the wings and the tegulre 

 behind pale ferruginous. Abdomen ferruginous, the three apical 

 segments black. 



The male resembles the female, but is more pubescent, the 

 body and legs are entirely covered with short silky pile, and the 

 head and thorax have a thin scattered long white pubescence ; 

 the first joint of the petiole black. 



Hab. North China (Shanghai). 



Genus 3. COLOPTERA. 

 Coloptera, St.Farg. Hym. iii. 387. 1. 



1. COLOPTERA BARBARA. 



Coloptera Barbara, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 387. 1. 

 Lucas, Explo. Sc. Alger. iii. 276. t. 14. f. 9. 



Hab. Algeria (Oran). 



2. COLOPTERA PROXIMA. 



Female. Length 13 lines. Black : the clypeus anteriorly, 

 the scape and the mandibles ferruginous ; four or five of the 

 basal joints of the flagellum fusco-ferruginous ; the tips of the 

 mandibles black; the clypeus truncate, the angles acute; the 



