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the tarsi and tlie intermediate and posterior tibiae covered with 

 silvery pubescence. Abdomen red, the apical segment black, 

 punctm'es fine and distant. 

 Hab. India. (Coll. J. S. Baly, Esq.) 



12. Sphecodes rufipes, n. s. B.M, 



Female. Length 3^ lines. — Head and thorax black, their pu- 

 bescence black ; mandibles ferruginous. Thorax strongly punc- 

 tured, the tegulse rufo-piceous, the wings fusco-hyaline, all the 

 tibife and tarsi bright ferruginous, then- pubescence white ; that 

 on the femora is black. Abdomen red, smooth and shining, the 

 Ijasal margins sparingly punctin-ed ; the apex clothed with fus- 

 cous pubescence. 



Male. — Closely resembles the female ; head rather wider than 

 the thorax, the face covered with white pubescence, the antennae 

 moniliform. Abdomen elongate-ovate, closely and distinctly 

 punctured. 

 Hab. Algeria. 



13. Sphecodes rubripes. 



Sphecodes rubripes. Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vii. 512. 58. 

 Hab. Egypt. 



14. Sphecodes hispanicus. 



Sphecodes hispanicus, Wesm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. iv. ; Bull. Ent. 

 Ixvii. 67. 6. 



Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vii. 513. 59. 



Hab. Egypt; South of France. 



15. Sphecodes antipodes, n. s. 



Female. Length 3~ lines. — Head and thorax black, closely and 

 strongly punctured ; mandibles deeply grooved exteriorly, their 

 apex broad and ferruginous ; the stemmata placed in a curve on 

 the vertex; the flagellum of the antenna; nigro-piceous beneath. 

 Thorax, the upper portion of the metathorax grooved longitu- 

 dinally ; beneath the post-scutellum is a half-circular space en- 

 closed by an elevated carina ; thence to its base truncated, the 

 sides of the truncation produced into two pohited tubercles ; 

 wings fusco-hyaline, palest towards their base ; the posterior 

 legs clothed with silvery white pubescence, particularly within ; 

 apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen red, shining, 

 distinctly but sparingly punctured ; the base black, the margins 



