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Gen. Mygnimia, Smith. 



1. Mygnimia ichneumoniforrais (Pompilus), Guer. Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. 258. 

 Hab. Celebes; Dory; Amboyna. 



2. Mygnimia fervida, Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. Supp. v. 82. 1. 

 Hab. Makassar; Ceram. 



3. Mygnimia cognata. M. atra; metathorace rugoso; alis nigro- 

 fuscis cupreo violaceoque micantibus. 



Female. Length 10 lines. Black; the head and thorax covered with 

 black pubescence; the anterior margin of the clypeus entire; the 

 anterior tibiae and tarsi with a few very short slender spines; the 

 metathorax convex, pubescent, and rugose, the wings very dark brown, 

 with their apical margins of a deeper tint. Abdomen longitudinally 

 aciculate. 



Hab. Ternate. 



This species is very like M. anthracina, but I think it is a distinct 

 species ; it has not the deep transverse ridges on the metathorax which 

 characterise that insect, and it also differs in having the abdomen very 

 obviously aciculate, or irregularly finely striated longitudinally. 



Gen. Macbomeeis, 8t. Farg. 



1. Macromeris violacea, St. Farg. Gueriri's Mag. Zool. pi. 30. fig. 1,<J . 

 Hym. iii. 462, 2. 



Hab. Gilolo ; Celebes ; Aru ; Borneo ; Java ; Malacca ; New Guinea ; 

 Assam; Ceram. 



Fam. SPHEGIDJE, Leach. 

 Gen. Sphex, Fair, 



1. Sphex sericea, Fabr. Syst. Piez, p. 211. 19. 



Hab. Ternate; Bachian ; Aru; Celebes; Malacca; Borneo; Java; 

 Philippines, 



2. Sphex argentata, Dahlb. Hym. Fur op. i. 25. 1. 



Hab. Gilolo; Celebes; Bengal; Aru; Sumatra; Java; Bachian; 

 Congo ; Sierra Leone. 



3. Sphex nigripes, Smith, Cat. Hym. pt. 4. 254. 59. 

 Hab. Gilolo ; Celebes ; Singapore ; Sumatra ; China. 



4. Sphex tyrannica, Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. v. 122. 5. 

 Hab. Gilolo ; Menado ; Bachian ; Kaisaa. 



5. Sphex ferox. S. nigra, capite thoraceque pube fulva vestita; 

 abdomine basi pedibusque ferrugineis, tarsis nigris ; alis subhyalinis 

 marginibus apicalibus fuscis. 



Male. Length 10 lines. Black ; the femora, tibiae, and two basal seg- 

 ments of the abdomen ferruginous ; the petiole black ; the head and 

 thorax densely clothed with fulvous pubescence ; the clypeus widely, 



