NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN HYMENOPTEHA. 9 



striate, median segment finely and regularly rugose, abdomen smooth 

 and shining; eyes with their inner orbits nearly parallel, elypeus broader 

 than long, arched anteriorly ; posterior ocelli nearer to one another 

 than to the margin of eyes ; antennae with the third joint the longest, 

 but not so long as the fourth and fifth united ; pronotum rather long, 

 mesonotum with a median longitudinal line at base ; median segment 

 gradually sloping for about two-thirds of its length, then perpendicular, 

 its posterior margin rounded : petiole short, formed of the first seg- 

 ment only, second segment gradually widening to apex, about the same 

 length as tho first, and rather longer than* the third abdominal segment. 

 Black ; the abdomen very shining ; front, scape of the antennse, cheeks, 

 thorax, and femora covered with long but not very dense black pubes- 

 cence; legs very spinose ; forewing subfuscous, hindwing rather lighter, 

 the first discoidal nervure is received nearly in the middle of the 

 second cubital coll. 



Long. 16-17 mr.i. 



Habitat : Quetta ; four specimens. 



I first saw this insect in the Bolan Pass on my way to Quetta. It is 

 allied both to A. Iceta described from Chaman, South Afghanistan, and 

 to the European spacies A. ebenina, which extends into Persia, hut it 

 differs from both in being smaller and in the sculpture of the median 

 segment., 



Ammophila funerea, n. sp. 



$ Olypeus almost impunctate, vertex of head sparsely punctured, 

 pronotum impunctate, mesonotum obliquely, seutellum and post 

 scutellum longitudinally, and median segment transversely striate ; 

 abdomen impunctate, the first two segments shining; elypeus much 

 produced, its anterior margin transverse, a con picuous median longi- 

 tudinal carina not reaching the anterior margin ; distance of eyes 

 apart at vertex about half as much again as at elypeus ; posterior 

 ocelli rather closer together than their distance from margin of eyes ; 

 antennae with the second joint of the flagellum the longest, apical five 

 joints widest in the middle ; pronotum wide, not or scarcely notched ; 

 the striatum of the median segment much coarser at the sides than 

 above ; petiole formed of the first abdominal segment only, second seg- 

 ment gradually widened towards apes, where, however, it is much 

 narrower than t,he base of the third segment ; less stout, tarsal claws 

 bidentate. Black ; antennae, abdomen, and legs pruinose ; front with 



