242 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1890. 



recurved rim, mandibles black with an acute tooth on the inner 

 margin, antennas opaque black ; thorax black, the pro thorax notch- 

 ed longitudinally, the mesothorax clothed with a short, thick, black 

 velvetty pubescence, and having two short and scarcely perceptible 

 impressed lines on the disc ; the scutellum and postscutellum black, 

 the former with a shallow longitudinal groove in the middle, the 

 latter slightly projecting ; the metathorax long, rounded, transversely 

 striated and clothed with a thick velvetty black pubescence mixed 

 with erect black hairs ; wings dark brown with a conspicuous broad 

 fuscous black border along their apical margins, the basal portion 

 of the wings are shot with a brilliant purple effulgence ; legs black, 

 the anterior femora, tibise and tarsi, and the intermediate and poste- 

 rior tibiae and tarsi studded with black hairs and spines, calcaria 

 black, claws dark chestnut brown. Abdomen black, smooth and 

 shining, the petiole short. 



I captured two specimens of this insect in November at Mergui. 

 It is remarkable that it should be found in Burma, as Wallace only 

 procured it far south in the Malay Archipelago, 



14. Sphex fulvo-hirta, n. sp. 



Habitat : Ceylon. 



Female: Length 13 1 lines : expanse 21 lines. 



Description : ? Head a little wider than the thorax black, 

 mandibles armed with two teeth on the inner margin, their base 

 longitudinally striated and grooved, clypeus convex clothed with 

 black pubesoence and stiff black hairs, antennas black, face, vertex, 

 and cheeks clothed with velvetty black pubescence ; thorax black, 

 the prothorax, the mesothorax, the scutellum, and postscutellum 

 covered with a dense short velvetty black pile ; the scutellum and 

 postscutellum raised, and notched longitudinally down the middle* 

 the latter having the appearance of two tubercles side by side ; 

 the metathorax long, rounded, clothed above and on the sides with 

 dense soft fulvous pubescence, wings hyaline, brownish yellow at 

 base, fading to a light yellow towards the apex, and having a broad 

 apical margin to both anterior and posterior Avings of faint dusky 

 black, tegulae black, nervures yellow ; legs black, claws dark chestnut 

 brown with their tips black. Abdomen black, very smooth and 

 glossy, the petiole rather short. 



