18 HYMENOPTERA. 



tered hoary pubescence, most dense above, on the tarsi beneath 

 pale fulvous, apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen 

 chalybeous, very closely punctured, margins of the segments 

 smooth and shining, beneath they are rufo-piceous. 

 Hab. N. Holland. 



2. EURYGLOSSA TERMINATA. 



Female. Length 4 lines. Black, head strongly punctured, 

 the face rather convex ; the clypeus shining, the punctures scat- 

 tered ; the antennae nigro-piceous, the apex of the joints of the 

 flagellum beneath testaceous. Thorax, the disk shining, the 

 punctures large but scattered, interspersed with finer ones ; the 

 metathorax above smooth and shining ; the legs dark ferruginous, 

 their pubescence very thinly scattered, except that on the tarsi and 

 posterior tibia, which is silvery white. Abdomen impunctate, 

 having a silken gloss, the margins of the segments narrowly tes- 

 taceous, the fifth segment bright fulvous, its pubescence being 

 of the same colour. 

 Hab. New Holland. (Coll. W. Wilson Saunders, Esq.) 



3. EURYGLOSSA DEPRESSA, n. s. 



Female. Length 4i lines. Head and thorax black, the for- 

 mer closely punctured ; the clypeus convex, shining, having large 

 deep punctures not so dense as on the rest of the head ; on each 

 side of the face close to the margin of the eyes a broad depression 

 commencing in a line with the insertion of the antennae and ter- 

 minating opposite the posterior stemmata ; margin of the vertex 

 fringed with pale yellow hairs. Thorax, above shining, the punc- 

 tures fine and distant; the enclosed space on the metathorax 

 very smooth and shining, sides of the metathorax fringed with 

 white pubescence ; the tarsi rufo-piceous, clothed beneath with 

 pale fulvous pubescence. Abdomen dark green, having a satiny 

 gloss, the margins of the segments black and shining ; the base 

 of the abdomen deeply sinuated ; beneath, the basal margin of 

 the segments highly polished and shining. 

 Hab. New Holland. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



Genus 9. PROSOPIS. 



Apis, pt., Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 953, 1766. 

 Hylseus, pt., Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 302, 1793. 

 Sphex, pt., Panz. Faun. Germ. 



Melitta, pt., Kirby, Mon. Ap. Angl. i. 134, * b, 1802. 

 Prosopis, pt., Fab. Syst. Piez. p. 293, 1804. 



