HYMENOPTERA. 271 



and two pairs at the apex, of which the upper ones are very 



short and acute. 



Hab. South America. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



41. CcELioxYS Cayennensis. 



Coelioxys Cayennensis, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. (1841) 144. 

 95; Faun.' Chili, vi. 190. 1. 



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



42. CCELIOXYS PR^TEXTA. 



Coelioxys pra;texta, Halid. Linn. Trans, xvii. 320. 15 (1837). 

 Hab. St. Catherine's. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



43. CCELTOXYS ABDOMINALIS. B.M. 



Coelioxys abdominalis, Gner. Icon. Reg. Anim. Ins. 453. 

 Hab. Isle of St. Thomas. 



44. CCELIOXYS RUFIPES. 



Coelioxys rufipes, Guer. Icon. Reg. Anim. Ins. 452. tab. 73. f. 9. 

 Hab. Cuba. 



45. CCELIOXYS MODESTA. B.M. 



Female. Length 4^ lines. — Black, head and thorax covered 

 with large distinct punctures, the face covered with white pubes- 

 cence. Thorax, a line on the collar, a spot behind the tegulse, 

 and a line at the base of the scutellum of white pubescence ; the 

 sides of the metathorax have some long white hairs, and the legs 

 above are covered with very short white pubescence, the legs 

 rufo-testaceous, as well as the tegula; and nervures of the wings, 

 the latter fusco-hyaline, darkest towards their apical margins ; 

 the scutellum rounded behind and armed on each side with a 

 short bent tooth. Abdomen shining, the punctures scattered, 

 all the segments have fasciaj of white pubescence, frequently 

 interrupted ; the apical segment has the lower ])late broad, 

 rounded at the apex, and having a minute point in the middle, 

 the margins of the plate fringed with fuscous pubescence. 



Hab. United States. 



16. CCELIOXYS RUFITARSUS. B.M. 



Male. Length 5^ lines. — Black, the head and thorax coarsely 

 punctured, the face covered with white pubescence, the cheeks 

 and the thorax beneath have a long white pubescence as well as 



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