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cS . Head and thorax black-brown shot with some metallic blue ; 

 legs scarlet, the tibiae with some blue-black at base and orange on 

 inner side, the tarsi orange ; abdomen black-brown with silvery-blue 

 segmental lines on terminal segments, subdorsal series of ochreous 

 spots, the anal tuft crimson, the ventral surface with the basal halt 

 scarlet, the terminal half ochreous. Fore wing black-brown 

 suffused with metallic blue. Hind wing black-brown. Underside 

 of fore wing with grey-brown streak above vein 5. 



Hab. Gold Coast, Bibianaha (Spun-ell), 3 6 type. Exp. 48 

 milhm. 



*303 a. Pseudosphex novercida. 



Pseudosphex novercida, Kaye, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1913, p. 5, pi. i. ff. 3, 3 a, 



d ■ Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown with slight greyish 

 pile; coxa? with whitish marks, the femora slightly streaked with 

 whitish ; abdomen with the ventral valve edged with white and 

 with narrow white band beyond it. Fore wing hyaline, the veins 

 and margins black ; the costal area, cell, and inner area suffused 

 with black-brown. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and margins 

 black ; the cell and a streak below terminal part of vein 1 

 suffused with black. 



Hab. S. Brazil, Castro Parana (Kaye), type f 3 in Coll. 

 Kaye. Exp. 28 millim. 



304 a. Pseudosphex inelaiiogen. (Plate IV. fig. 17.) 



Pseudosphex melanogen, Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxviii. p. 229 (1910). 

 Pseudosjihex deceptans, Zerny, Iris, xxvi. p. 121 (1912). 



3- Head black, the frons and back of head yellow; antenn;e 

 black-brown ; palpi yellow and black ; thorax black, the tegulse 

 yellow behind, the patagia with yellow patches and edges ; meta- 

 thorax with yellow patch ; legs yellow with some black on coxa?, 

 femora, and tibiae ; abdomen black with orange-yellow patches on 

 the tubercles and narrow segmental bands on 3rd to terminal seg- 

 ments, the ventral valve edged with white behind. Fore wing 

 hyaline, the cell and submedian interspace to end of cell yellowish, 

 the veins and margins narrowly brown ; the area beyond the cell 

 suffused with red-brown from eosta to vein 5 ; the inner margin 

 suffused with red-brown. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and 

 margins narrowly brown. 



Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz, Sta. Rosa (Schaus), type in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. ; BfiAZIL, Sta. Catherina, Blumenau, type f 3 deceptans in 

 Mus. Vienna. Hab. ign. 2 c?. Exp. 30 miilim. 



*305 a. Pseudosphex aracia. (Plate IV. fig. 18.) 



Pseudosphex aracia. D. Junes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1914. ined. pi. i. f. 1. 



3 ■ Head yellow ; palpi mostly brown; antennae and vertex oi 

 head black-brown ; thorax yellow, the tips of tegulse, edges of 



