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PLATE XLIV. Fig. 4. 

 SPHEX DEGOBATA, Smith. 



Length, 1 2 lines. Black, the base and apex of the abdomen 

 ferruginous. Head : the scape and two or three of the basal 

 joints of the flagellum ferruginous; the clypeus and mandibles 

 ferruginous, the latter black at their tips ; the face and cheeks 

 with golden pubescence. Thorax covered with a fine short 

 changeable golden pubescence, most dense on the metathorax ; 

 the tegulffi, nervures of the wings, and the legs ferruginous, the 

 claws tipped with black ; the wings fulvo-hyaline. Abdomen fer- 

 ruginous, with the second segment black above, and witli two 

 large black maculse beneath. 



Hah. North- West Coast of Australia. 



In Coll. Brit. Museum. 



PLATE XLIV. Fig. 5. 

 SPSEX PB^TEXTA, Smith. 



Length, 12 lines. Black : the face and metathorax clothed 

 with golden pubescence ; the cheeks and the vertex with long 

 thin pale yellow hair ; the wings sub-hyaline with their apical 

 margins slightly bordered with a fuscous cloud ; the posterior tibiae 

 with fine golden pile within ; the basal segment has a pale 

 changeable golden pile. 



Hah. Moreton Bay. 



In Coll. Brit. Museum. 



Family NTSsoNii>.aE. Geims Stizus, Latr. 



PLATE XLIV. Fig. 6. 

 [STIZUS PEGTOBALIS. 



(Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. Pt. IV. p. 336.) 



Length, 12 lines. Hah. Australia. 



In Coll. Brit. Museum. 



