36 HYMENOPTERA. 



8. SPHECODES SEMI-^NEUS. 



Sphecodes semi-aeneus, Brulle, Hist. Nat. II. Canar. ii. 88. 36. 

 Hab. Canary Islands. 



9. SPHECODES ALTERNATUS, n. s. 



Female. Length 4 lines. Head and thorax black ; sides of 

 the face below the antennae covered with silvery-white pubes- 

 cence, mandibles in middle ferruginous ; the head shining and 

 strongly punctured. Thorax shining, the punctures scattered 

 on the disk ; metathorax truncate, above rugose ; the outer 

 margins of the tegula3 pale testaceous ; wings fusco-hyaline, their 

 apical margins darkest ; the first recurrent nervure received in 

 the middle of the second submarginal cell ; all the tibiae and tarsi 

 ferruginous, the tibiae having a fuscous stain behind. Abdomen 

 shining red, the extreme base impunctate, becoming gradually 

 closely punctured at the apical margin of the basal segment ; 

 the following segments each in succession more closely and much 

 more finely punctured. 



Resembling S. Africanus, but in that species the first recur- 

 rent nervure is received at the extreme apex of the second sub- 

 marginal cell. 

 Hab. Albania. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



10. SPHECODES FUMIPENNIS, n. s. 



Female. Length 5 lines. Head and thorax black, the face 

 on each side of the clypeus clothed with white pubescence ; the 

 mandibles dark ferruginous, antennae rufo-piceous beneath ; the 

 puncturing on the vertex very deep and close, on the disk of the 

 thorax the punctures are large and confluent ; the metathorax 

 truncate, the sides and upper portion coarsely rugose ; wings 

 dark fuscous ; legs fusco-ferruginous, the tibiae and tarsi clothed 

 with silvery-white pubescence. Abdomen covered with large 

 distant punctures, the apical margin of the basal segment con- 

 stricted, the following depressed, smooth and shining. 

 Hab. N. India. (Coll. J. S. Baly, Esq.) 



11. SPHECODES APICATUS, n. s. 



Female. Length 4 lines. Head and thorax black, the former 

 strongly and closely punctured, the face covered with white pu- 

 bescence, most sparing on the clypeus. Thorax, the disk very 

 smooth and shining, having a few large distant punctures ; meta- 

 thorax coarsely rugose; wings fusco-hyaline, their apical mar- 

 gins darkly clouded ; apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous ; all 



