186 HYMENOPTERA. 
14. Myenimia CapeEnsis. B.M. 
Sphex Capensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 942. 4. 
Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 216. 74. 
Pompilus Capensis, Fabr. Syst. Piez.p. 196. 46. 
Hemipepsis Capensis, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 123. 1. 
Hab. Cape of Good Hope. 
15. Myenimia BARBARA. B.M. 
Pallosoma Barbara, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 495. 6. 
Lucas, Explo. Se. Alger. iii. 269. t. 14. f. 5. 
Hab. Algeria (Oran), 
16. Myenimia ATROPOsS. B.M. 
Female. Length 12 lines. — Black: the head and thorax 
thinly clothed with black pubescence, that on the cheeks and 
metathorax is long and loose; the metathorax slightly convex 
and transversely striate, having on each side a raised longitudinal 
carina which is continued to the apex, not produced posteriorly ; 
wings very dark fuscous, with a brilliant purple iridescence, 
varied with blue and chalybeous shades. Abdomen covered with 
greenish-blue iridescent pile. 
Hab. Sierra Leone. (Coll. Rev. D. F. Morgan.) 
17. MYGNIMIA ANTENNATA. B.M. 
Female. Length 10 lines.—Black : the clypeus, labrum, palpi, 
mandibles in the middle, femora towards their apex, tibize and 
tarsi, rufo-ferruginous, the claws and extreme base of the apical 
joints of the tarsi black; the flagellum bright orange; meta- 
thorax rounded behind, transversely striate, most strongly so 
towards the apex, and having in the centre a longitudinal im- 
pressed line ; wings nearly black, with a splendid mixed irides- 
cence of violet, blue and purple. Abdomen obscurely zneous. 
Male.—Rather smaller than the female, the apical joints of 
the flagellum slightly fuscous. 
Hab. Port Natal. 
18. MyGNIMIA VINDEX. B.M. 
Female. Length 17 lies.—Black: the antenne having the 
apex of the joints obscurely ferrugmous; the clypeus having the 
anterior margin widely emarginate. Thorax obscurely eneous 
anteriorly and also at the sides, the legs having in some lights 
shades of blue ; wings dark fuscous, with a bright violet irides- 
