NO. 1S69. NEW SPECIES OF WASPS— ROHWER. 465 



Manchester, Connecticut. One female collected September 13, 

 1910, by Mr. A. B. Champlain. 

 Type— Ca.t. No. 14075, U.S.N.M. 



Family SPECID^. 



Genus PODIUM Fabricius. 



PODIUM (PARAPODIUM) CAROLINA (Rohwer). 



Podium Carolina Rohwer, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 40, No. 1837, 1911, p. 556. 



This may be only a subspecies of Podium ^Parapodium) higuttatum 

 Taschenberg. It differs from the original description in the follow- 

 ing points: Scape black; all the tibiae and tarsi rufous; tegulse in 

 part black. From Kohl's description of this species it also differs 

 in some mmor points. Compared with his figure ^ of the wing the 

 following differences are to be noted: The second cubital smaller, 

 its first abcissa on the cubitus not strongly bent; third cubital not 

 so distinctly narrowed above, the third transverse radius not bent; 

 stigma truncate apically; radial cell with a narrow, truncate apical 

 portion. The petiole is twice as long as the posterior coxse and 

 trochanter united; apical joint of antennae slightly shorter than the 

 preceding. 



SPHEX (SPHEX) NIGROPILOSUS, new species. 



Of the Central American species this seems to be nearest to SpTiex 

 (described as AmmopTiila) zanthoptera (Cameron), but differs from 

 the description of that species in a number of characters, being 

 readily separated from it by the wings beyond the stigma bemg 

 strongly dusky, no bluish reflection to body, and the black pubescence. 



The figures cited in the following description are those of Kohl's 

 "Monographie der Gattung Ammophile W. Kirby." ^ 



Female. — Length 22 mm. Habitus much as zanthoptera as figured 

 by Cameron. Clypeus hardly produced, broadly truncate, lateral 

 angles sharp, subdentate; inner eye margins subparallel, slightly 

 closer together at the clypeus, similar to figure 117; ocelli in a low 

 triangle, the lateral ones on the supraorbital line, see figure 113; 

 occiput, seen from above concave; impressed frontal line strong; 

 head, except lower posterior orbits shagreened; clypeus polished, 

 with well separated punctures; flagellum filiform, the first joint 

 subequal to the two following, apical joint truncate; pronotum short, 

 rounded anteriorly, separated from the mesoscutum by a deep furrow; 

 thorax except where mentioned, finely granular; scutellum rather 

 deeply impressed, posteriorly finely longitudinally striate; suture of 



1 Abhand. k. k. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 1, fig. 4, p. 45. 



2 Ann. k. k. naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, vol. 21, 190G, p. 228, etc. 



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