36 HYMENOPTEBA. 



S. Sl'UKCODKS SEMI-yKNEUS. 



iSphecodes sfini-aneiis, Brullc, Hist. Nat. II. Canar. ii. 88. 36. 

 Hab. CaimiT Isliimls. 



y. 5>l>HKCODKS ALTEKXATUS, n. S. 



Female. Lcnjrth 4 lines. — Head and thorax black ; sides of 

 the face below the aiiteniuc covered with silveiy-white pubes- 

 cence, mandibles in middle fernifiinous ; the head shining and 

 stmntrlv punctured. Thorax shining, the punctures scattered 

 cm the disk ; metathorax truncate, above rugose ; the outer 

 margins of the tegula; pale testaceous ; wings fusco-hyahne, their 

 apical margins darkest ; the tirst recurrent nervure received in 

 tile middle of the second subniarginal cell ; all the tibiaj and tarsi 

 ferruginous, the tibiic having a fuscous stain behind. Abdomen 

 shining red, the extreme base imjiunctate, becoming gradually 

 closely punctured at the apical margin of the basal segment ; 

 the following segments each in succession more closely and much 

 more finely punctured. 



llesembliug b'. Africanus, but in that species the first recur- 

 rent nerviu"e is received at the extreme apex of the second sub- 

 margmal cell. 



Hab. Albania. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



10. Sphecodes fumipennis, n. s. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Head and thorax black, the face 

 on each side of the clypeus clothed with white pubescence ; the 

 mandibles dark feiTuginous, antenna; rufo-piceous beneath ; the 

 j)unctunng on the vertex ver^' deep and close, on the disk of the 

 thorax the j)unctures are large and confluent ; the metathorax 

 truncate, the sides and upper portion coarsely rugose ; wings 

 dark fuscous ; legs fusco-ferruginous, the tibiae and tarsi clothed 

 with silvery-white pubescence. Abdomen covered with large 

 distant punctures, the apical margin of the basal segment con- 

 stricted, the following depressed, smooth and shining. 

 Hab. N. Incha. (Coll. J. S. Baly, Esq.) 



11. Sphecodes apicatus, n. s. 



Female. Length 4 lines. — Head and thorax black, the former 

 strongly and closely punctured, the face covered with white pu- 

 bescence, most sparing on the clypeus. Thorax, the disk very 

 smooth and shining, having a few large thstant punctures ; meta- 

 thorax coarsely rugose ; w ings fusco-hyaline, then- apical mar- 

 gins darkly clouded ; apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous ; all 



