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G-en. Mackomeeis, >S'^. Farg. 

 Macromeris, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 4631. 



1. Macromeris splendida. 



Macromeris splendida, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 464. 2. 



Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). India. Java. China. Malacca. 



2. Macromeris argentifrons. M. ater, pube argentata tecta ; facie 

 dense pubescente ; alis subhyalinis ; metathorace quadrate. 



Female. Length 8 lines. Black ; covered with a fine silvery silky 

 pile, very dense and brilliant on the face, base and apex of the meta- 

 thorax, sides of the prothorax and coxae; the wings subhyaline, the 

 nervures dark ferruginous ; the joints of the anterior tarsi remarkably 

 attenuated at the base ; the claws of the tarsi small and unidentate j 

 the tibiae slightly spinose ; the thorax subelongate, the sides parallel ; 

 the metathorax transversely rugose. Abdomen distinctly petiolated, 

 very smooth and shining, abruptly incurved ; the aculeus elongate. 



Male. About the same size as the female, similarly clothed with 

 silvery pile; the coxae greatly swollen; the femora much stouter 

 than in the female, and ferruginous beneath ; the anterior tibiae ferru- 

 ginous within ; the posterior tibiae bent inwardly at their base ; the 

 thorax gradually widening to the apex of the metathorax, which is 

 finely roughened transversely and margined at the truncation. Abdo- 

 men small, distinctly petiolated, and very smooth and shining. 



Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). Malacca. Singapore. Java. 



G-en. Mygnimia, Smith. 

 This genus of Pompilidce contains all those species which have 

 the first recurrent nervure uniting with the second transverso- 

 cubital nervure, the posterior tibiae strongly serrated, with a 

 double row of short spines. These insects are in fact the repre- 

 sentatives of the Pepsis of South America, and embrace some of 

 the largest and most beautiful species of Pompilidcd ; all, with one 

 solitary exception, (a species from Mexico), are inhabitants of the 

 Old World ; Fepsis, on the contrary, is almost exclusively found in 

 the New "World : I am only acquainted with four exceptions, three 

 being African, and one from Singapore. 



1. Mygnimia flava. 



Pompilus flavus, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 197. 



Hemipepsis flavus, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. p. 123. 



Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). Malacca (Mount Ophir). Singapore. India. 



2. Mygnimia anthracina. 



Mygnimia anthracina, Smith, Cat. Hym. pt. iii. 183. 

 Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). Malacca and Singapore. 



