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IIYMENOPTERA. 



face covered with biii^ht golden pile. Tiie head and tliorax finely 

 punctured, most sparing on the disk of the mesothorax ; the 

 metathorax most strongly and closely punctured, the punctures 

 confluent; wings fusco-hyaliue, smoky towards their base, the 

 apical margins faintly clouded ; the nervures rufo-testaceous, 

 the costal, post-costal, the externo-mechal and anal nervures 

 dark fuscous ; the first Jind second segments of the abdomen 

 black; the apical margin of the second and the following seg- 

 ments yellow, with a bright golden pile. 



Hab. Sumatra. 



68. SpHEX LINEOLA. B.M. 



Sphex lineola, St. Farg. Ilym. iii. 353. 27. 



Hab. Java; Sumatra; Hong Kong; North China. 



59. Sphex nigripes. B.M. 



Female. Length 9-10 lines. — Opake-black : the head and 

 thorax thinly sprinkled with black pubescence ; wings fusco- 

 hyaline, dark fuscous towards the base, with a yellowish tinge in 

 the middle and fuscous at their apex ; the nervures rufo-testa- 

 ceous, towards the base of the wings they are darker ; the femora 

 and tibia; ferruginous ; the tarsi black. 



Hab, Sumatra; North China (Shanghai). 



Some specimens from Sumatra have only the posterior femora 

 ferruginous ; those from China are similarly coloured ; the wings 

 in some examples are darker than in others. 



60. Sphex Formosa. B.M. 



Female. Length 10 lines. — Black : the face densely clothed with 

 bright golden pubescence, the cheeks have also a golden pubes- 

 cence, and the head a scattered long golden-yellow pubescence. 

 The thorax is covered with golden pubescence of a rather paler 

 colour than that on the face, the scutellum and a space beneath 

 the wings usually naked, the pubescence densest on the meta- 

 thorax ; the legs covered with a fine silky pile; the wings fusco- 

 byaline, their apical margins fuscous, the nervures rufo-fuscous. 

 Abdomen : the petiole about the length of the first segment ; 

 the abdomen has a blue tinge and is covered with a delicate 

 silky pile. 



Hab. Ceram. (Coll. Madame Ida Pfeiffer.) 



