460 THE CBUISE OF THE ' GUBAQOA.' 



PLATE XLIV. Fig. 1. 

 FBIOGNEMIS AFFEGTATUS. 



(Smith, Trans. Enf. Soc. (1868), p. U6, ? .) 



Length, 8^ lines. In Coll. Brit. Museum. 



PLATE XLIV. Fie. 2. 

 FBIOGNEMIS EPHIPPIATUS. 



(Smith, Tratis. Ent. Soc. (1868), p. 246, $ .) 



Length, 8 lines. In Coll. Brit. Museum. 



Family Sphegidjk. Genus Sphes, Linn. 



PLATE XLIV. Fig. 3. 



SPHEX AUBIFFX, SmUJi. 



Length, 12^. Black, the head, and thorax above, clothed 

 with golden-coloured pubescence ; the legs and two basal segments 

 of the abdomen ferruginous. The scape of the antennas and 

 base of the flagellum beneath, ferruginous ; the clypeus and 

 mandibles ferruginous, the latter black at their tips. Thorax, 

 the wings flavo-hyaline, with a dark fuscous border on their apical 

 margins extending along the posterior border of the inferior 

 wings. Abdomen, the apical margin of the second segment and 

 all the following segments black. 



Hab. North- West Coast of Australia. 



In Coll. Brit. Museum. 



