396 Mr. R. E. Turner on Fossorial Hymenoptera. 



Pal. Beauv., and the colouring is also very different. The 

 male genitalia are also different, the stipes being narrower 

 and more acute at the apex than in tenuis. The pulvillus is 

 absent in tenuis, 



Sphex dolichoderus, Kohl. 



Ammophila dolichodera, Kohl, Verb, zool.-bot. Qes. Wien, xxxiii. 



p. 383(1883). S- 

 Ammophila pulchricollis, Cam. Ann. Transvaal Mus. ii. p. 133 



(1910). d. 



According to Dr. Braun?:, Cameron's type is a female. 

 Kohl, in his table a few ])a.ues before the description of 

 (hlichodera, gives the name of the species as macrocola. 

 ProbaVjl}'^ he originally intended to use tliis name and changed 

 it in the description, but neglected to make the alteration in 

 the (able. 



SpJie.v ferrugineipes, Lep. 



Ammophila ferrugineipes, Lep. Hist. nat. Insect. Hymen, iii. p. 383 



(1845). $. 

 Ammophila dunhrodyensis, Cain. Rec. Albany Mus. i. p. 322 (1905). 



Sphex hasaUs, Sm. 



Ammophila basalis, Sm. Cat. Hym. B.M. iv. p. 214 (1856). $ . 

 Ammophila 7u'f/npes, Sm. Cat. llyui. B.iNl. iv. p. 215 (1856). J. 



Sphex {Coloptera) tubercuUscutis, sp. n. 



5 . Nigra ; mandibulis, apice excepto, clypeo, antennis articulis 

 sex basalibus, prothorace, mesonotolateribus, mesopleuris macula 

 sub alis, tegulis, scutello, postscutello, tergito secundo leviter 

 nigro suffuso, pctiolo subtus, sternitis pedibusque, femoribus 

 supra nigrolineatis, ferrugineis ; alis sordide hyalinis, flavo- 

 suffusis, venis nigris ; pronoto fere polito, antice subexcavato, 

 utrinque tuberculato, ])ostice in medio obsolete transverse striattr, 

 mesonoto transverse striate ; scutello postscutelloque longitu- 

 dinaliter striatis, postice productis, lamellate- tuberculatis. 



(S . Feminae similis, tergito secundo nigro, basi fusco-ferrugineo ; 

 clypeo apice in fcuberculo producto. 



Long., 2 21-22, 6 22-25 mm. 



$ . Mandibles with one large, broad, blunt tooth on the 

 inner margin, clypeus broadly subtruncate at the apex. 

 Ej'es almost parallel on the inner margins ; posterior ocelli 

 almost as far from each other as from the eyes ; front not 

 concave, without a distinct longitudinal sulcus; the face and 

 sides of the clypeus clothed with very delicate pale golden 



