HYMENOSPHECIA; VESPANTHEDON; SPHECOSESIA; ALONINA. By M. Gaede. 
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(?) C. setodiformis Mab. Antennae black, with a pale yellow ring before the thickened portion, abdomen setodifor- 
yellow at the base. Forewing hyaline, inner margin yellow, the distal hyaline area prolonged towards the anal 
angle, so that its outer margin appears to be impressed. Between the veins yellow scales. Hindwing narrowly 
edged with black, at the apex somewhat broader. Size not mentioned. Madagascar. 
The following genera are wasp-like. 
20. Genus: Hymenosphecia Le Gerf. 
Palpi long, oblicpie, 1st and 2nd joints with a long dense hair-pencil. Abdomen somewhat wasp-like; 
hind legs short. In the forewing the cell is very long, vein 1 feeble, 2 and 3 distantly separated, 4 nearer to 5, 
7 absent, 10 and 11 distantly separated at the base, at the end very near together. In the hindwing veins 3 
and 4 not stalked, 5 above the centre of the cross-vein, 6 and 7 united. 
H. albomaculata Le Gerf (77 e). Bronze black. Frons somewhat white, 3rd palpal joint and antennal albomacu- 
base white. Abdomen above at the base laterally yellow, beneath white. Fore wing violettish black, in the cell 2 
hyaline rays. Hindwing hyaline, with a somewhat bluish gloss, margin fine brown. $ 34 mm. Uganda. 
21. Genus : Vespantliedon Le Cerf. 
Proboscis feeble. Palpi somewhat shorter than usual. Antennae moderately long, crenulate. Abdomen 
as in Hymenosphecia. Anterior tibiae outside somewhat hairy. In the fore wing veins 2 and 3 somewhat nearer 
together, 7 + 8 stalked on % of their length, 10 rising near 9. In the hindwing veins 3 + 4 stalked. 
V. cerceris Le Cerf (77 e). Somewhat like albomaculata. Palpi chiefly yellow, frons laterally white, eerceris. 
Thorax with yellow spots. Abdomen at the base above, on the following segments laterally with yellow spots, 
beneath the anterior half is white. Legs black and yellow. Forewing with faded margins, cross-vein hardly 
prominent. Hindwing scarcely margined. G 30 mm. Delagoa Bay. 
22. Genus: Sphecosesia Hmps. 
Proboscis normal. Palpi at the base long-haired. Antennae of G finely ciliated, behind the middle 
strongly thickened. Legs hairless. Abdomen very much like that of wasps. In the forewing veins 7 + 8 stalked. 
In the hindwing veins 3 + 4 stalked. Type: pedunculata Hmps. from India. 
S. brachyptera Hmps. (= Ichn. pedunculata. Hmps.). Black, with a silvery blue gloss. Palpi in front, brachyptera 
frons laterally white. Legs spotted yellow, spurs white. Abdomen on the 4th segment beneath with a white 
band. Forewing hyaline, at the margins and cross-vein bluish-black, at the apex the marginal band broader. 
Hindwing corresponding to forewing. 16 mm. Gold Coast. 
23. Genus: Alonina Wkr. 
Palpi long porrect, hairy excepting last joint. Antennae in the middle thicker, crenulate. Hind tibiae 
densely haired, tarsi very long. Fore wing before the apex bent, veins 4 and 5 from the same place, 7 + 8 
stalked, 9, 10 and 11 near the cell-angle. In the hindwing veins 4, 5 and 6, 7 near the angles, 8 near 7. Beneath 
on the forewing in the cell near the base a little hollow. Type: rynchiiformis Wkr. 
A. rynchiiformis Wkr. Busty red. Antennae and legs reddish. Anal tuft reddish-yellow. Hind tibiae rynchii- 
black with a red streak near the base, spurs white. Forewing hyaline, costal margin reddish, the narrow cross¬ 
vein inside violet, otherwise reddish, like the distal margin, too. $ 26 mm. Natal. 
A. difformis Hmps. Body dark brown mixed with reddish-yellow. Anal tuft fiery red. Antennae and difformis. 
palpi reddish-yellow. Anterior and middle tibiae and tarsi orange, hind tibiae black, their ends and the tarsi 
reddish-yellow, spurs white. Fore wing hyaline yellow, veins, margins, cross-vein coppery brown, marginal 
band at apex broader. Hindwing hyaline yellowy veins reddish-yellow, in the interior area black. Distal margin 
black. In the $ the antennal base is brown. Abdomen with a grey dorsal line and anal segment. Forewing 
golden yellow, at the costal margin as far as the centre and at the inner margin narrower black. Distal margin 
somewhat broader blackish-brown. Hindwing at the base black, in and behind the cell somewhat orange, 
otherwise as in the + 44 -48 mm. Natal. 
A. longipes Holl. (77 e). Palpi, antennae and body black. Tibiae and tarsi orange, margined with black, longipes. 
Wings black, hindwing at the apex with a blue gloss, at the inner margin below the cell somewhat hyaline. 
G 55 mm. Ogowe. 
