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a very little whitish pile, cheeks and thorax in front and at the sides 

 with a little greyish to fuscous pubescence ; wings hyaline. 



Long. 23 mm. 



Habitat ; Deesa ; a single specimen. 



This species, having the tarsal claws bid en Kite, belongs to the sub» 

 genus Parapsammophila, of which the only other Indian representative 

 is A. erytlirocephala. The latter species has, however, the wings 

 fuscous and the legs. red. 



Sphex fraoilis, n. sp. 



9 Head and thorax with thick but rather short white pubescence, 

 hiding the sculpturing, except on the median segment, which is finely 

 transversely striate ; clypeus broader than long, its anterior margin 

 rounded, with a very slight emargination in the centre ; inner margins 

 of e} 03 parallel, oheeks and occiput moderately developed, mandibles 

 very long, simple at apex ; second joint of flagellum of antennae half 

 na long again as the third ; pronotum rather long, mesonotum with an 

 impressed line at base, scutellum notched, but not postscutellum ; 

 median segment rather long, gradually sloping, rounded posteriorly, 

 without any longitudinal furrow ; petiole of abdomen rather shorter 

 than second and third segments united, remaining segments forming an 

 elongated oval ; ventral plates of abdomen not pubescent or punctured ; 

 legs long, slender, the tarsi strongly spinose, claws bideniate. Black ; 

 the mandibles in the centre, tegulee, second and following abdominal 

 segments, apex of femora, tibia?, and tarsi, rather light red ; the ab- 

 dominal segments have at apex bisinuate bands of lighter colour; many 

 of the spines of the legs are white ; wings hyaline, nervures testaceous \ 

 second cubital cell higher than long, rhomhoidal, third much narrowed 

 above, sub-triangular \ the first recurrent nervure is interstitial with the 

 first transverse cubital nervure, the second recurrent nervure is receiv- 

 ed into the third cubital cell near the inner angle. 



$ Smaller, clypeus more produced, eyes very slightly divergent at 

 vertex, all the legs, and the second and basal half of the third abdominal 

 segments blaok ; the second abdominal segment with thick white pubes- 

 cence.' 



Long. 9 17 mm. $ 13 mm. 



Habitat : Deesa ; Quetta. 



This species looks like a miniature S. nhosvs t but it is less than half 

 the size, and differs in other respects. 



