4/6 hymenoptera. 



29. Philanthus Romandi. * 



Philanthus (Traclivpus) Romandi, Sauss. Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve, 

 xiv. S.3'^. 



Hab. Brazil, 



30. Philanthus (Trachypus) elegans. B.M. 



Male. Length 44 lines. — Black : the head closely punctured, 

 the face below the antennje covered with silvery pubescence ; a 

 minute spot on each side of the clypeus in front, another at the 

 anterior part of the emargination of the eyes, the scape, and a 

 spot at the base of the mandibles, yellow ; the scape with a black 

 spot behind ; the two basal joints of the flagellum and also the 

 apical one fulvous. Thorax : the mesothorax shining, with scat- 

 tered punctures, and having anteriorly three deeply impressed 

 lines which extend to the disk ; the collar (which is raised and 

 has the lateral angles rounded), the tubercles, a spot beneath the 

 wings, another on the tegulse in front, two at the base of the 

 scutellum, the post-scutellum, and two elongate spots at the 

 apex of the metathorax, yellow ; the wings hyaline, with a nar- 

 row fuscous line running from the stigma to the apex of the wing ; 

 the tips of the anterior and intermediate femora, the tibiae and 

 tarsi, yellow ; the posterior tibiae with a yellow stripe above, not 

 extending to their apex ; the tarsi white, with the tips of the 

 joints fuscous ; the anterior and intermediate tibise with a rufo- 

 piceous stain beneath. Abdomen : the extreme apex yellow ; 

 the second segment with a waved yellow fascia a little before its 

 apical margin, continued beneath ; the second segment has a 

 narrow fascia a little before its apical margin, emarginate or in- 

 terrupted on each side ; the following segments have each a 

 continuous fascia ; beneath, the margins are yellowish on each 

 side. 



Hab. Brazil (Villa Nova). (Coll. H. W. Bates.) 



31. Philanthus (Trachypus) apicalis. B.M. 



Male. Length 5-6 lines. — Black and shining ; head strongly and 

 closely punctm-ed ; the anterior stemma placed in a fossulet from 

 which an impressed line passes down to the insertion of the an- 

 tennae, below which the face is covered with a golden pubescence ; 

 the first joint of the flagellum of a yellowish-white beneath ; the 

 apical joint truncated at the tip, which is of an orange-yellow. 

 Thorax : the mesothorax strongly punctured, with a deeji central 

 depression at its base ; the base of the metathorax smooth and 

 shining, with a central abbreviated impressed line, which termi- 



