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ment has a broad band at its base, its hinder margin waved ; the 

 two following segments yellow, except their extreme base ; the 

 three apical segments entirely yellow. 



Hab. California. 



25. PHILANTHUS FRIGIDUS. B.M. 



Male. Length 5 lines. Black, closely and rather finely punc- 

 tured ; the clypeus and an oblong spot above it, a minute spot 

 between the antennae, the sides of the face a little above the an- 

 tennas, the scape in front, the mandibles, and a short narrow line 

 behind the eyes, yellow ; the flagellum fulvous beneath ; the 

 face and cheeks with a thin cinereous pubescence ; the eyes not 

 emarginate. Thorax : the collar, tubercles, a spot in front of the 

 tegulae, a transverse line at the base of the scutellum, a spot on 

 the post-scutellum, the tibiae, tarsi, and tips of the femora, yel- 

 low ; wings hyaline, the nervures pale ferruginous. Abdomen : 

 an ovate spot on each side of the basal segment, a transverse 

 slightly interrupted fascia a little before the apical margin of the 

 second, a narrower one on} the third, fourth and fifth segments, 

 similarly situated and interrupted, yellow ; a similar band on the 

 three intermediate segments beneath, slightly interrupted and 

 rather broader than the fasciae above. 



Hab. Nova Scotia. (Coll. Lieut. Redman.) 



Div. 2. Abdomen petiolated. 



26. PHILANTHUS GOMESII. B.M. 



Trachypus Gomesii, King, Berl. Mag. iv. 43. t. 1. f. 5. 

 Philanthus petiolatus, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. v. 121. 309. t. 3. 



f. 4 $(1841). 



Philanthus Gomesii, Sauss. Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve, xiv. 8. 1. 

 Simblephilus Spinolae, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 190. 43. 



Hab. Brazil. 



2/. PHILANTHUS DENTICOLLIS. 



Trachypus denticollis, Spin. Gay's Chili, vi, 335. 1. 



Hab. Chili. 



28. PHILANTHUS PATAGONENSIS. 



Philanthus (Trachypus) Patagonensis, Sauss. Mem. Soc. Phys. 

 Geneve, xiv. 10. 4. t. f. 1 <? . 



Hab. Patagonia. 



