156 SYNTOMID^. 



fulvous brown ; tegulse spotted with black ; patagia edged with 



black ; mesothorax with two 

 black stripes, metathorax with 

 one ; abdomen with two black 

 stripes on medial part of 1st 

 segment, the other segments 

 fulvous brown ; the ventral 

 valve more or less prominently 



Y\g. m.—Ps9udosj}hex iMlistes, ,i . \. fringed with white; wings 



hyaline, the veins and margins 



narrowly brown. Pore wing with the costal area from just before 



end of cell to apex clouded with brown. 



Hah. Mexico, Guerrero {H. U. Smith) ; Guatemala, Yera Paz 



{Champion), Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Amazosts, Ega (Bates), Para 



(Austen). Exj). 30-32 millim. 



306. Pseudosphex ichneumonea. 



Pseudosphex ichneumonea, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 225 (1854) ; 



Kirby, Cat. HeL. p. 135. 

 Pseudosphex polybioides, Burm. Descr. Eep. Arg. v, p. 372 (1878) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 155. 

 Myrmecopsis crabronlf, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 54, pi. 8. f. 9 



(1884); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 135. 



Black; antennae black or fulvous brown; coxoe of male white; 

 abdomen with the ventral valve, or in female the pedunculated 

 segment, fringed with white ; wings brownish hyaline, the veins 

 and margins narrowly brown. Fore wing with the costal and 

 inner areas to beyond middle clouded with black. 



Ab. 1. crabronis : fore wing with the costal and inner areas 

 slightly clouded with brownish. 



Bah. Guatemala; Pajjama, Chiriqui (Champion), tyT^e crahronis 

 $ Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Brazil, type f in Coll. Staudinger ; 

 Akgentina. Exj)., 6 34, $ 38 millim. 



*307. Pseudosphex hyalozona. 



Sphecopsis hyalozona. Feld. Keis. Nov. pi. 102. f. 29 (1874) ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 134. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; frons grey ; abdomen 

 with some white on ventral surface of 1st segment, and the first 

 two segments uarro^vly edged with white. Pore wing black-brown 

 shot with blue to near termen ; a hyaline fascia from base below 

 the cell and between veins 2 and 4 extending to near termen. 

 Hind wing hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly black, the 

 costal area suffused with fuscous. 



Hah. Colombia, Bogota, 1 ? typet in Coll. Eothschild. Exp. 

 38 millim. 



