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tured ; the antennae rufo-piceous. The mesothorax shining, and 

 with line distant punctures, the sides closely and strongly punc- 

 tured ; the rnetathorax rugose, the enclosed space at its base with 

 longitudinal grooves ; the wings clear hyaline and splendidly iri- 

 descent ; the nervures and tegulae rufo- testaceous. Abdomen im- 

 punctate. 



Hab. Northern India. 



6. Sphecodes pilosulus. 



Female. Length 4| lines. — Head and thorax black : abdomen red, 

 with the' extreme base and apex black ; a fine hoary pile on the 

 segments beyond the basal one. Head opaque, very closely and finely 

 punctured; the face and cheeks with short white pubescence. 

 Thorax closely punctured, clothed on the sides and beneath with 

 white pubescence ; the enclosed space at the base of the rneta- 

 thorax longitudially grooved ; wings subhyaline and iridescent. 

 Abdomen shining, impunctate at the base and very delicately so 

 beyond ; a black macula at the extreme base and a second in the 

 middle of the segment ; beneath black, with the apical margins of 

 the segments red. 



Male. Closely resembles the female, but has the abdomen more 

 elongate ; the basal segment has three black maculae on the first 

 segment, probably sometimes forming a transverse band, leaving 

 the extreme base red ; the extreme apex of the abdomen is also 

 red ; beneath red, with the base and apex black. 



Hab. Mexico, Oajaca. 



7. Sphecodes crassicornis. 



Male. Length 2| lines. — Head, thorax, and the base and apex of 

 the abdomen black, the intermediate portion red. Head trans- 

 verse, rather wider than the thorax, closely punctured ; the 

 face covered with white pubescence ; the antennae incrassate, 

 obscurely rufo-piceous beneath, and submoniliform. Thorax 

 strongly punctured, the rnetathorax rugose, the sides and beneath 

 covered with hoary pubescence, the legs with hoary pile ; the 

 apical joints of the tarsi rufo -testaceous ; wings hyaline and iri- 

 descent, the nervures and tegulae rufo-testaceous. Abdomen closely 

 punctured, the basal segment most strongly so. 



Hab. Bombay district. 



8. Sphecodes sodalis. 



Male. Length 2k lines. — Head, thorax, and the base and apex of 

 the abdomen black, the apex of the first segment, the second and 



