370 HYMENOPTERA. 



the wings brown, with the apex of the anterior pair hyaline- 

 Abdomen : the apical margin of the segments with a broad yel- 

 low fascia which is continued beneath ; that on the first segment 

 has a small notch in the middle, and the two following are slightly 

 attenuated in the middle ; beneath, the bands are much dilated 

 at the sides. 



Hab. Georgia. 



33, GORYTES DIVISUS. B.M. 



Male. Length 4 lines. — Black : the head shining, with scat- 

 tered punctures ; the antennae, clypeus, sides of the face, labrum, 

 mandibles and palpi, of a reddish-yellow. Thorax shining, the 

 collar, tubercles, a spot beneath the wings, and the posterior 

 margin of the scutellum, yellow ; the wings fusco- hyaline, darkest 

 in the marginal C£ll, the nervures and tegulse rufo- testaceous ; 

 the legs ferruginous, the tarsi yellowish ; the suture at the base 

 of the scutellum smooth. Abdomen : the first two segments 

 smooth and shining, the five apical segments subopake and 

 strongly punctured, the whole covered with a fine sericeous pile ; 

 the second segment much swollen, very convex ; the first and 

 second segments have a broad fascia on their apical margins, of a 

 bright yellow, more or less suff'used with ferruginous ; the third 

 and fourth segments have a narrow slightly interrupted fascia on 

 their apical margins, the apex furnished with a single tooth or 

 minute spine. 



Hab. Georgia. 



Genus 9. HARPACTUS. 



Mutilla, pt., Latr. Act. Soc. Nat. Par. i. 11 (1792). 

 Sphex, pt., Fabr. Ent. Syst. Siipp. 243 (1798). 

 Evania, pt., Fabr. Ent. Syst. Supp. 241 (1798). 

 Ceropales, pt., Fabr. Syst. Piez. 185 (1804). 

 Pompilus, pt., Fabr. Syst. Piez. 187 (1804). 

 Mellinus, pt., Latr. Hist. Nat. xiii. 318 (1804). 

 Arpactus, JwHwe, Hym. 192 (1807). 

 Larra, pt., Dahlb. Exercit. Hym. 51 (1833). 

 Harpactus, Shuck. Foss. Hym. 221 (1837). 



1. Harpactus l^vis. B.M. 



Mutilla Isevis, Latr. Act. Soc. Nat. Par. i. 11. 12. 

 Sphex cruenta, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Supp. 244. 54-55. 

 Evania ruficoUis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Supp. 241. 3-4? 

 Ceropales ruficollis, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 186. 6? 



