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Ibmural'erruglnous. Head densely clothed with g-olden-coloured 

 pubescence, the cheeks with long hairs of the same colour. 

 Thorax smooth and shining- above, the sides and also beneath 

 thinly clothed Avith long golden-colourcd ])ubescence ; it is 

 much more dense on the metathorax, on the sides, and towards 

 the apex ; the base of the metathorax transversely striated ; 

 the postscutellum bituberculate ; wings hyaline, the nervures 

 black, the apical margin of the superior pair faintly clouded ; 

 a dark fuscous spot at the apex of the marginal cell ; the 

 tibiai and tarsi very spinose. Abdomen black, with a faint 

 tinge of blue. 



Ifab. Sierra Leone. 



Genus Ampulex, Jurine. 

 Ampulex aj)icaUs. 



Female. Length 6 lines. Varied with tints of blue and 

 green, the scape of the antennee and apex of the abdomen 

 feiTUginous. Head blue or green, covered witli deep confluent 

 punctures ; the clypeus and mandibles ferruginous ; the cly- 

 peus wuth a sharp carina in the middle, its anterior margin 

 subangular. The pro- and mesothorax with large confluent 

 punctures, the former slightly narrowed towards the head ; 

 the metathorax transverse, the posterior lateral angles dentate, 

 the superior surface with a raised margin, a central longitu- 

 dinal carina that runs from the base a little beyond the middle, 

 where it divides into a fork which runs to the posterior mar- 

 gin, on each side are three oblique carinte, between the carinas 

 coarsely striated ; Avings fuscous, Avith a hyaline fascia cross- 

 ing the superior pair at the base of the first submarginal cell ; 

 the apex of the Aving is subhyaline. Abdomen smooth and 

 shining, delicately and sparingly punctured, the three apical 

 segments ferruginous. 



Hah. South Africa (Zulu country). 



This species belongs to the section of the genus Ampulex 

 which has only tAvo submarginal cells. 



Genus DOLICHURUS, Latr. 



Dolickuriis loivis. 

 Female. Length 4 lines. Black, smooth and shining, the 

 abdomen brightest. Head very closely and very delicately 

 punctured, Avith a fcAv irregularly intermixed larger punc- 

 tures ; a tubercle in the middle of the face concave above, 

 Avith its anterior margin Avhitish ; the palpi, base of the man- 

 dibles, and the cljpeus yellowish wliite, the anterior margin 



