^30 ^Ir. T. D. A. CocUerell — Descriptions and 



Hah. C'liilpancinfio, Guerrero, ^lexico, 4G00 ft., October 

 {H. II. Smith ; British ]\luseuin). 



Ill C. permaculata tlie mandibles have a large bright red 

 subapical spot, but in C. herherti this is rej)reseiited only by 

 an obscure reddish tint. Both species have a white baud 

 along anterior orbits. 



Strandiella ruficornis, sp. n. 



(J. — Length about I'b mm. 



►Shining black, slender, with dark fuliginous wings ; head 

 broad, eyes converging below ; face densely covered with 

 white hair ; mandibles bidentate, apical half chestnut-red ; 

 maxillary palpi G-jointed, joints measuring in microns (1) 96, 

 (2) 64, (3) 50, (4) 50, (5) 50, (6) 64 ; antenn* sliort for a 

 male; third joint 160 microns long, fourth 128 ; scape rather 

 slender, curved, with very long hair ; flageUum tliick, clear 

 ferruginous beneath except at base ; front and vertex strongly 

 punctured ; a smooth space on each side of ocelli ; mesotiiorax 

 and scutellum very strongly but sparsely punctured; area 

 of metathorax triangular, with irregular large rugse ; sides of 

 metathorax shining and tinely punctured ; legs piceous, ante- 

 rior tibiai and tarsi pale reddish brown in front ; tegulae dark 

 brown, with a very large fulvous spot ; stigma large; b. n. 

 failing short of t.-m. ; two s.m, cells, about equally long 

 (second very long), the second receiving first r, n. some 

 distance from base and second near apex; abdomen polished, 

 with very si)ar.-=e punctures, a constriction at base of second 

 segment ; sides subapically with dark hair; apical plate 

 small and rounded. 



Hah. Willowmore, Cape Colony, Dec. 19, 1911 {Dr. 

 Brmins ; British Museum). 



Nearest to S. glaberrima, Friese, but distinguished by the 

 colour of the antenna3 and the shining male abdomen. Tlie 

 insect looks like some small fossorial wasp. 



8. longula, Friese, is herewith designated as the type of 

 birandiello. 



Sphecodes iurneri, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 8 mm. 



Head, thorax, antennae, and legs black, witli thin dull 

 •white hair ; abdomen bright ferruginous, with the last seg- 

 ment black and the apical half of fourth strongly suffused 

 with blackish ; head very broad, facial quadrangle much 

 broader than long ; sides of face with appressed dull white 

 hair; clypeus irregularly rather densely punctured, with no 



