182 SCOLIID^ 



12. Myzine confusa. 



Male. Length 4 lines.- — Head and thorax black, abdomen ferru- 

 ginous. The mandibles ferruginous, the flagellum fulvous beneath ; 

 the vertex smooth, shining, and impunctate. The pro- and mesa- 

 thorax with fine scattered punctures, smooth and shining ; the 

 metathorax coarsely rugose ; the tibiae and tarsi ferruginous ; wings 

 hyaline and iridescent, the nervures rufo-testaceous, the stigma 

 fuscous. Abdomen subpetiolate, smooth, and shining ; the basal 

 half of the first segment black, 



Hah. Amazons, Ega„ 



13. Myzine agilis, 



lemale. Length 8 lines. — Black, shining, and punctured, variegated 

 with pale yellow markings ; wings fulvous, their apex fuscous 

 and iridescent, nervures ferruginous. The antennae, two spots be- 

 tween them, the clypeus, and mandibles ferruginous, the tips of 

 the latter black ; a narrow yellow line at the inner orbits of the 

 eyes towards their summit, with scattered punctures above the 

 antennae. The pro- and mesothorax with strong but not close 

 punctures ; the metathorax truncate, the base rugose ; at the verge 

 of the truncation transversely carinate, the truncation with radi- 

 ating striae ; the margins of the prothorax yellow, the anterior one 

 interrupted ; the postscutellum and a spot beneath the wings yel- 

 low ; the legs ferruginous. Abdomen smooth and shining ; a lateral 

 ovate macula on the basal segment; the second segment with a 

 short lateral line near the middle and a short one at its basal 

 margin in the centre ; the third and fourth segments with trans- 

 verse narrow fasciae, that on the latter slightly interrupted, and the 

 fifth segment with a widely interrupted narrow fascia, pale yellow ; 

 beneath black. 



Male. Length 7| lines. — Black; the clypeus, mandibles, scape in 

 front, and a spot above each antenna yellow. The prothorax, the 

 tegulae, a V-shaped spot on the mesothorax, a lunate one on the 

 scutellum, the postscutellum, a spot beneath the wings, the tibiae, 

 tarsi, and apex of the femora, yellow ; wings hyaline, the nervures 

 ferruginous. The segments of the abdomen with uninterrupted 

 yellow fasciae ; beneath, the fasciae are narrower, attenuated, and 

 interrupted in the middle. 



Hob. Nicaragua. 



14. Myzine bicincta* 



Female. Length 5 J lines. — Black; the metathorax yellow, the 

 abdomen with a violet iridescence, and with a narrow yellow 

 fascia at the base of the third and fourth segments. The clypeus, 

 mandibles, and antennae ferruginous, the latter more or less fuscous 



