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L'hemisphere australe possede une espece bien distincte: i. par son metathorax doucement penche en 

 arriere et uniformement convexe; 2. par son abdomen opaque et aussi fortement ponctue que l'avant-corps. 



Mr. DlEGE l'a prise an Cap de Bonne Esperance et il me l'a envoyee sous le nom Sphecodes cribrosa 

 DlEGE. Elle a les antennes, les partes, les ailes et l'avant-corps, noirs, l'abdomen entierement rouge. Taille un 

 peu plus petite que celle de notre collaris (c'est-a-dire environ 9 mm). 



Quelque incomplete que soit cette description, eile suffit parfaitement pour faire ressortir la grande 

 difference qui existe entre cette espece et la precedente (Sphecodes punctatus). Spinola a oublie d'indiquer le 

 sexe, qui est tres-probablement la $. 



Sphecodes iridipennls Cam. 

 1905 Sphecodes iridipennis Cameron, $, in: Rec. Albany Mus., Vol. I, p. 327. 



?. Black, abdomen bright red, wings fuscous-violaceous, highly iridescent, nervures and stigma black, 

 bind wings with at least 9 hooks, the 1. separated from the 6. by a space and the latter from the apical 3., 

 flagellum of antennae brownish beneath, the basal 2 / 3 of the mandibles bright red. L. 7 mm. 



Front and vertex closely, rugosely punctured, the punctures almost running into reticulations in places; 

 there is a narrow fine keel down the centre of the front on its lower half. Face closely rugosely punctured, its 

 centre formiftg a raised triangle, with the apex above ; the clypeus strongly, but not closely punctured ; its apex 

 fringed with fulvous hair. Labrum depressed in the centre, the sides forming 2 rounded tubercles. Mesonotum 

 strongly, but not very closely punctured, with a central smooth depression, and with a smooth space down the 

 sides. ScuteUum strongly punctured; a smooth space in the centre of the basal half. Postscutellum coarsely, 

 closelly longitudinally rugose. Base of metanotum coarsely, closely, longitudinally reticulated in the centre, the 

 sides more closely, obliquely striated. Pleurae coarsely, closely rugosely reticulated, as is also the breast. Legs 

 black, the calcaria and the apical joints of the tarsi pale-testaceous, as are also the tarsal spines ; the hair on the 

 tarsi inclines to fulvous; on the rest of the legs it is black. 



Kapland. 



Sphecodes guineensis Vach. 

 1903 Sphecodes guineensis Vachal, ($¥> in: Ann. Soc. ent. France, T. LXXII, p. 399. 



(?$• Nigra, tegulis, genubus, et abdominis basi plus minus rufis. Pilis albis brevibus rigidis sparsus, in 

 facie mollibus et longioribus. Alae infuscato-hyalinae, nervis piceis. 



Caput latum, ocellis minus inter se quam ab oculo remotis, facie lata, orbitis deorsum paulo convergentibus. 

 Vertex et thorax crasse dense punctati, in mesonoto crassius, in scutello sparsius. Segmenti medialis area superna 

 quadrata clathrata. Abdomen dense punctulatum (in <3 crassius), sed segmento 3 crassius punctata. 



?. Antennae brevissimae, gradatim clavatae, articulis funiculi omnibus longitudine sua brevioribus, primis 

 tribus brevissimis. Segmenta 1 — 2 rufa. Pygidium rufescens longe trapezinum. 



ö. Antennae solitae, articulis 2 — 3 lenticularibus, 3 brevior quam 2, 4 longior quam 5, et multo longior 

 quam 2 + 3; abdomen segmentis 1 — 2 et aliquando 3 plus minus pro parte (vel 2 toto) dilute rufis. Pygidium 

 brevius quam in femina, rufescens. 



Mandibulae et Onychia rufescentia. — L. 6 mm. ; c(L 8 mm. 



i ? et 4 S de Libreville 20. VIII. 1897 (Bouyssou), ma coli., et 1 $ dAssinie (Alluaud), coli, de GAULLE. 



Kongo (Westafrika). 



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