PSEUDOSPHEX, 155 



Sect. I. Fore wing with vein 2 from angle of cell. 



303. Pseudosphex strigosa. 



Amycles strigosa, Driice, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 46, pi. 8. f. 3 (1884) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 127. 



Black-brown. Fore wing with slight hyaline streak below base 

 of cell ; the black-brown shading off to reddish brown towards the 

 apical white patch, which extends down to vein 2 and has a hyaline 



Fig. 67. — Pseudosphcx strigosa, cf. \. 



streak between veins 3, 4 running up to angle of cell. Hind wing 

 with hyaline streak below base ot" cell and semihyalino patch 

 beyond lower angle of cell above vein 4. 



Hah. Mexico, Tabasco {H. II. Smith), Jalisco (Schumann), Yuc- 

 atan (Gaume?'); Guatemala, Yera Paz (Champion), type Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. Ewj). 24 millim. 



Sect. II. Fore wing with vein 2 from before angle of ceil. 



A. Abdomen pale yellow, with broad black bands laticincta. 



B. Abdomen fulvous yellow, without bands polistes. 



0. Abdouien black. 



a. Fore wing clouded with pale brown, with hyaline 



fasciai in and below cell icJmeumonea. 



h. Fore wing fuscous suffused with blue, with hyaline 



fascia below cell hyalozona. 



304. Pseudosphex laticincta, n. sp. (Plate YI. fig. 8.) 



Sphecosoma fascioiatuui, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 54 (part), 

 nee Butl. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow ; palpi banded with 

 black ; frons whitish ; antennae black towards base and with black 

 band between their bases ; tegula? edged with black ; patagia and 

 thorax striped with black; abdomen with dorsal stripes on 1st 

 segment and bands on lateral tubercles ; the other segments with 

 black bands expanding to slight points behind on dorsum ; wings 

 hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly fuscous and fulvous. 

 Fore wing with the costal area clouded with fulvous. 



Hah. Guatemala, Yera Paz, 1 (S {Chaminon), type Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. E.rp. 2(S millim. 



305. Pseudosphex polistes. 



Pseudosphcx polistes, Hiibn. Zutr. Ex. Schmett. i. p. 12, ff. 39, 40 (1827) ; 



Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 53 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 135. 

 Myrmecopsis eumenides, Newm. Zool. viii. App. p. cxxii (1850). 



(5 . Head and thorax yellow ; vertex of head black ; antennje- 



