158 STXTOMIDiE. 



309. Sphecosoma arctatum. 



Fseudosphex arctatum, Wlk. xxxi. 95 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 135. 



J . Head and thorax yellow : vertex of head blue-black ; tegulse 

 and thorax banded with black, a blue-black patch on metathorax ; 



patagia black-edged ; abdomen 

 with black stripe on 1st segment 

 and spots on the lateral lobes ; 

 orange beyond the peduncle and 

 with blue-black segmental bands; 

 wings hyaline, the veins and 

 . „„ „ , , , margins narrowly black. Fore 



^^g.nO.-8phecosomaarctatum,S. \. ,ving with slight yellow streak 



below costa and short streak above inner marain. 



Hah. Amazons, Ega, 1 S {Bates), type. Exp. 28 millim. 



310. Sphecosoma deceptrix, n. sp. 



Sphecosoma fasciolatum, Driice, Biol. Centr.-Aiu., Het. i. p. 54 (part), pi. 6. 

 f. 26 (aec BuU.). 



Head whitish, with black band between antennas ; palpi and legs 

 orange-yellow ; antennae black towards base ; thorax and abdomen 

 pale yellow ; tegulae edged with black ; patagia and thorax striped 

 with black ; abdomen with black dorsal stripe on first two segments 

 and spots on the lateral tubercles, the other segments broadly 

 banded with black ; wings hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly 

 dark. Fore wing with the costa and inner margin and veins to 

 end of cell orange-yellow. 



Bah. Guatemala, Vera Paz, type; Panama, Bugaba {Champion), 

 Godman-Salvin CoD. Exp. 22 miUim. 



*311. Sphecosoma simile. (Plate VI. fig. 2.) 

 Sphecosoma simile, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 225. 



(f . Head and thorax yellow ; antennae black and yellow ; vertex 

 of head with black spot ; tegulse and patagia edged with black ; 

 thorax marked with black ; mid tarsi striped with black ; abdomen 

 yellow, the Ist segment with pair of dorsal black points and black 

 bars on the lateral tubercles, the 3rd and following segments dorsally 

 banded with black and blue, the black on 4th segment extending on 

 to ventral surface at end of valve ; wings hyaline, the veins yellow 

 and black, the margins narrowly black. Fore wing with apical 

 black patch. 



Hah. Venezuela, Area. Exp. 2d>m\\\\m. Typo f in Coll. Schaus. 



312. Sphecosoma testaceum. (Plate VI. fig. 22.) 

 Glaucopis testacea, Wlk. i. 196 (1854) ; Kvcby, Cat. Het. p. 135. 



S . Head blackish ; palpi yellow ; antenna yellow, with blackish 



