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black with a (bin silky white pile, the intermediate tibiae and tarsi 

 and the whole of the posterior pair of legs have the same rich dark 

 iridescent violet pile as the metbatborax ami abdomen 



This very beautiful and well-marked species I have ventured to 

 name after its discoverer Mr. E. E. Green. Mr. Green favoured me 

 with the following interesting note with the type specimen: "The 

 Ferreo/a (marked B) was reared from a cocoon found in what had 

 evidently been a large spider's nest between two leaves; the grub had 

 evidently been feeding upon the eggs- of the spider " 



i2. F ERR KOLA FASCIATA, H. sp 



Habitat : Burma. 



Female: Length 7 to 12 lines: expanse 11 to 18 lines. 



Description : $ Head black, clothed with a thin grey silkv pile, 

 antennas jet black ; thorax black, the prothorax covered with short, 

 dense grey pile on the anterior and posterior margins, in the middle 

 the ground colour shows through like a black crescent, the rest of 

 the thorax covered very thinly with grey pile ; wings clear hyaline 

 for one-third their length from base, the apical portion, fuscous with a 

 dull purplish effulgence, nervures and tegulas black ; legs black 

 with thin grey silky pile. Abdomen blue black, the base of the list 

 segment, and the posterior margins of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd segments 

 with transverse bands of dense silvery pile, (hesp bands are partially 

 interrupted on the dorsal surface, but are continuous on. the under 

 side of the abdomen. 



I have found this species only in dense forest by streams at 2,000 

 feet elevation and above. I have not succeeded in taking a male. 



Family Sehebidje, Leach. 



13. iSphex tyraivnica, Smith. 



Sphex tyranniea, Smith. Proc Linn. Soc, V. p. 122, 5, 



Habitat: Batchian; Kaioa ; Gilolo ; Timor; Sula;. Mergui (Tenas- 

 serim ) . 



Female : Length 13 lines: expanse 23 lines. 



Description : $ Head black, closely and very finely punctured 

 and clothed with erect black hairs, the face on either side of the cly- 

 peus and below the antennae has a thin silvery pile only visible in 

 certain lights ; clypeus circular convex, its anterior margin with a 



