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THE ANNALS 



AJTD 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 



No. 58. OCTOBER 1912. 



XLVIII. — Notes on Fossorial Hymenoptera. — X. 

 By llowLAXD E. TuRXEK, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



On new Species from the Oriental and Ethiopian Regions. 



Family Psammocharidae (olim Pompilid^s) . 



Ceropales pictus, Shuck. 



Ceropa/es picfa, Shuck. Trans. Ent. Soc. London, ii. p. 70 (1837). ? . 

 Ceropales rnficollis, Cam. Sjostedt's Kilimandjaro-Meru Exp. ii. p. L^60 

 (1910). ■$ . 



Hab. Cape Colony (Shuckard) ; British East Africa, 

 Kikuyu Escarpment, Kijabe to Limoru, 7000 feet (S. A. 

 Neave) ; Harar, Abyssinia (G. Krtstensen). 



Abyssinian specimens are darker on the legs and antennae, 

 •which are only irregularly tinted with fusco-ferruginous, 

 not almost entirely ferruginous as in the typical form. 



Xanthampulex pernix, Bingh. 

 Ceropales pernix, Bingh. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxr. p. 425 (1896). 

 6. 



This species, though near to X. trifur, Schulz, in colour, is 

 probably distinct. The eyes are strongly convergent towards 

 the clypeus, as in the other species of the genus. The 

 sculpture differs somewhat from the description of trifur, 



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