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sing thee ocelli ; the enclosed portion of the metathorax transversely sulcated ; 

 the wings dark fiiscons, with a violet iridescence, the tegulae ferruginous ; the 

 petiole and extreme base of the abdomen black : beneath, the second segment has 

 a large fuscous spot at the base. — Tripoli.» 



SPHEX MANDARINA Smith. 



«Sphex Mandarina Smith. (Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus. P. IV. p. 256, n. 56, 1856.)— 

 $ . Length 13 lines. — Black : the face covered with fine silvery pile ; the anterior 

 margin of the clypeus straight in the middle and sinuated at the sides ; the vertex 

 smooth and having a few scattered punctures ; a few stiff black hairs scattered 

 over the face. Thorax : the pro-and mesothorax very delicately punctured, inter- 

 spersed with a few large punctures ; a deep depression in the middle of the scu- 

 tellum ; the post-scutellum and metathorax apace, the enclosed space above, finely 

 rugose, the sides beyond obliquely strigose ; the claws ferruginous ; the tarsi furni- 

 shed with stout spines, the anterior pair strongly ciliated outside ; the tibiœ with a 

 few stout spines ; the wings subhyaline, the nervures ferruginous, the apical mar- 

 gins slightly clouded ; the second submarginal cell narrow, receiving the first re- 

 current nervure eis the middle. Abdomen red, with the petiole and three ai)ical 

 segments black. — North China (Shanghai.) (Nach Smith möglicher Weise der 

 Sphex Solieri Lep.)» 



SPHEX MICANS Eversm. 



Sphex micans Eversm. (Bull. Soc.Nat. Mose. XXII. p. N. II. p. 368, n. 3). — 

 «Niger, argenteo-sericea et hirta, abdomine medio rufo; metanoto leviter trans- 

 verse striato ; dorsulo parce punctato ; alis totis aqueis, cellula cubitali secunda 

 elongato rhombea. cf ? — Long. VW". ■ — Hab. ad Volgám inferiorem.» 



SPHEX OBSCÜRUS Fischer de Waldh. 



Sphex obscura Fisch. (Mag. zool. Guar. 184-3.) «Sph. atra, opaca antennis 

 longitudine thoracis ; abdomine planiusculo subpubescente, segmento priori ferru- 

 gineo ; alis nigricanti hyalinis ; pedibus nigiis, femoribus crassioribus. Eossia 

 australi. 7'". — Ad Panzeri Pompilum gibbum accedit, sed petiolus abdominis 

 2-articulatus. » 



(An hujus generis ?) 



SPHEX PERPLÉXÜS Smith. 



«Sphex perplexa Smith. (Cat. Hym. P. IV. p. 255. n. 64, cf. 1856.) — 

 cT. Length 10 fines. — Black : the face covered with silvery pubescence ; the head 

 and thorax with a sparing black pubescence ; the thorax finely rugose, the meta- 

 thorax transversely so, the wings fusco-hyaline, their apical margins clouded. 

 Abdomen very smooth and shining, the base of the first segment ferruginous, the 

 apical margins of three or four of the basal segments narrowly rufo-piceous. — 

 Noith China (Shanghai).» 



SPHEX REGALIS Smith. 



Chlorion regaHs Smith. (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Vol. XH, p. 299, ? , 1873.) — 

 « % . Length 15 lines. Black ; head, pro-and mesothorax bright light red ; the ab- 



