1008 Ampulicidae — Dryinidae — Sphecidae 



Superfamily SPHECOIDEA 

 Family AMPULICIDAE 



So far as their habits are known, the species of this family utilize crevices or 

 crannies of some sort for their nests, stocking them with imperfectly paralyzed 

 cockroaches. 



Rhinopsis Westwood 



R. canaliculata (Say). LI: Central Pk., Aug 13, 1913, Yaphank, Sep 4, 1910, Ds 

 (Beq). An extrem.ely rare insect. 



Family DRYINIDAE 

 BOCCHUS Ashmead 



B. atriceps Brues. Mosholu, Jl 25 (Bno) (type) ; LI: Flatbush, Jl 27, Zah (AM). 



PSILODRYINUS Kieffer 

 P. nigrellus (Brues). LI: Parkville, Bt (type- AM). 



GONATOPUS Ljungh 



G. flavifrons Ashmead. Albany, EPV (type-US). 

 G. contortulus Patton. Black Br., Je 21 (Mues-CU). 



ChelogYNUS Haliday 



C. henshawi Ashmead. Ithaca, Je 28, Yiiasa (Bdy-CU). 



C. vivariensis Bdy. McLean, Jl 26, 1925, SRobinson (type-CU). 

 C. xanthothorax Bdy. Taughannock Falls, Gucrlac&Bdy (type-CU) ; Penn Yan, 

 Jl 12, 1925, Babiy (paratype-CU). 



Family SPHECIDAE "4 



SUBFAMILY LARRINAE 



Tribe ASTATINI 



Astata Latreille 



(The members of this genus burrow in the ground and provision their nests with 

 Pentatomidae.) 



A. unicolor Say. Manlius, Sep 20, SmHH (Cress-CU) ; Honeoye Falls, Jl 23 

 (Bdy-CU) ; Albion (Bdy-CU) ; Canandaigua L., Je (NYS) ; Ithaca, Jl 14 

 (Bdy-CU); Slaterville (^d3;-CU) ; Karner, Sep (NYS); Nyack, Mosholu 

 (AM); Pelham Bay Pk., Aug 20 (Bdy-CU); LI: Queens, Jl 21 (Schott) ; 

 Cold Sp. Harb., Fishers I. (AM). 



A. bicolor Say. Rochester Jet., Jl 15 (Bdy-CU). A southern species. 



"* The manuscript for this family was submitted to Messrs. Banks, Bequaert, and Rohwer, who 

 added many records. H. T. Fernald furnished records in the Sphecinae, and is responsible for 

 the nomenclature and most of the records in the genus Sphex. 



