3/0 HYMENOPTERA. 



the wings brown, with the apex of the anterior pair hyaline. 

 Abdomen : the apical margin of the segments with a broad yel- 

 low fascia which is continued beneath ; that on the first segment 

 has a small notch in the middle, and the two following are slightly 

 attenuated in the middle ; beneath, the bands are much dilated 

 at the sides. 



Hab. Georgia. 



33. GORYTES DIVISUS. B.M. 



Male. Length 4 lines. Black : the head shining, with scat- 

 tered punctures ; the antennae, clypeus, sides of the face, labrum, 

 mandibles and palpi, of a reddish -yellow. Thorax shining, the 

 collar, tubercles, a spot beneath the wings, and the posterior 

 margin of the scutellum, yellow ; the wings fusco- hyaline, darkest 

 in the marginal cell, the nervures and tegulae rufo- testaceous; 

 the legs ferruginous, the tarsi yellowish ; the suture at the base 

 of the scutellum smooth. Abdomen : the first two segments 

 smooth and shining, the five apical segments subopake and 

 strongly punctured, the whole covered with a fine sericeous pile ; 

 the second segment much swollen, very convex ; the first and 

 second segments have a broad fascia on their apical margins, of a 

 bright yellow, more or less suffused with ferruginous ; the third 

 and fourth segments have a narrow slightly interrupted fascia on 

 their apical margins, the apex furnished with a single tooth or 

 minute spine. 



Hab. Georgia. 



Genus 9. HARPACTUS. 



Mutilla, pt., Latr. Act. Soc. Nat. Par. i. 11 (1/92). 

 Sphex, pt., Fabr. Ent. Syst. Supp. 243 (1798). 

 Evania, pt., Fabr. Ent. Syst. Supp. 241 (1798). 

 Ceropales, pt., Fabr. Syst. Piez. 185 (1804). 

 Pompilus, pt v Fabr. Syst. Piez. 187 (1804). 

 Mellinus, pt., Latr. Hist. Nat. xiii. 318 (1804). 

 Arpactus, Jurine, Hym. 192 (1807). 

 Larra, pt., DaJilb. Exercit. Hym. 51 (1833). 

 Harpactus, Shuck. Foss. Hym. 221 (1837). 



1. HARPACTUS L^EVIS. B.M. 



Mutilla Iffivis, Latr. Act. Soc. Nat. Par. i. 11. 12. 

 Sphex cruenta, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Supp. 244. 54-55. 

 Evania ruficollis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Supp. 241. 3-4? 

 Ceropales ruficollis, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 186. 6? 



