PSEUDOSPHEX. 1 55 



Sect. I. Fore wing with vein 2 from angle of cell. 



303. Pseudospliex strigosa. 



Amycles strigosa, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 46, pi. 8. f. 3 (1884) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 127. 



Black-brown. Fore wing with slight hyaline streak below base 

 of cell ; the black-brown shading off to reddish brown towards the 

 apical white patch, which extends down to vein 2 and has a hyaline 



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Fig. 67. — Pseudosphcx strigosa, S ■ 



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streak between veins 3, 4 running up to angle of cell. Hind wing 

 with hyaline streak below base of cell and semihyalinc patch 

 beyond lower angle of cell above vein 4. 



Hah. Mexico, Tabasco (//. H. Smith), Jalisco {Scliumann), Yuc- 

 atan ( fr'anmer) ; Guatemala, Yera Paz ((7/jrt»;p!'o«), tj-pe Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. Exj_). 24 millim. 



Sect. II. Fore wing with vein 2 from before angle of ceil. 



A. Abdomen pale yellow, with broad black bauds Ictticincta. 



B. Abdomen fulvous yellow, without bauds j^ofe^es. 



0. Abdomen black. 



a. Fore wing clouded with pale brown, with hyaline 



fasciffi in and below cell ichneumonea, 



b. Fore wing fuscous suffused with blue, with hyaline 



fascia below cell hyalozona. 



304. Pseudosphex laticincta, n. sp. (Plate VI. fig. 8.) 



Sphecosoma fasciolatum, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 54 (part), 

 nee Butl. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow ; palpi banded with 

 black ; frous whitish ; antennae black towards base and with black 

 band between their bases ; tegula) edged with black ; patagia and 

 thorax striped with black ; abdomen with dorsal stripes on 1st 

 segment and bands on lateral tubercles ; the other segments with 

 black bands expanding to slight points behind on dorsum ; wings 

 hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly fuscous and fulvous. 

 Fore wing with the costal area clouded with fulvous. 



Hah. Guatemala, Yera Paz, 1 S (Chamjnon), type Godman- 

 Salvin CoU. E.vp. 26 millim. 



305. Pseudosphex polistes. 



Pseudosphex polistes, Hiibn. Zutr. Ex. Schmett. i. p. 12, ff. 39, 40 (1827) ; 



Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 53 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 135. 

 Myrmecojjsis euvicnidcs, Newm. Zool. viii. App. p. cxxii (1850). 



S . Head and thorax yellow ; vertex of head black ; antenuje 



