46 Mr. E. Smith on Hymenopterom Insects captured in India. 



if the cell reaches you safely, you will see what I mean j although 

 the substance has been broken a little, it was quite perfect, and 

 had the appearance of a little window. In another exposed cell was 

 a Chrysis : by some means those enemies to everything, the red 

 ant, found it out, and soon exposed the pupa ; however, it was in a 

 sufficiently forward state to show what it would have been. The 

 Pelopaus made its appearance on the 4th of July ; the nest just 

 finished was taken on the 11th June 1848." 



The "thin substance like talc" was the pupa-case spun by the 

 Pelopceus ; it still lines the mud cell, is transparent, and of brown 

 colour. 



Genus Scolia. 

 Scolia fervida, n. s. 



Female (length 8 to 9 lines) black, the face coarsely punc- 

 tured ; eyes ovate, notched within, between the eyes in a fossulet 

 a single ocellus and a curved impressed line above it ; the mar- 

 gin of the vertex is punctured, but between this and the curved 

 impression it is smooth and shining. Thorax deeply punctured, 

 having two parallel smooth oblong spaces on the mesothorax 

 smooth and shining ; the wings dark fuscous, having a purple 

 reflection, and having two submarginal and one recurrent ner- 

 vure; the legs short, stout, and densely clothed with coarse black 

 pubescence. Abdomen, the second segment has two lateral red 

 maculae varying in size, sometimes united ; the second and third 

 red, as also in some instances the base of the fourth. 



Hab. Poona. 



This species is one that presents variable characters as follows : 

 one or two red spots in front of the ocellus, a red spot at the 

 vertex of the eyes, also on each side of the collar, a lateral dark 

 stain on the spots and segments of the abdomen ; all these are 

 more or less present in different individuals ; in general ap- 

 pearance it approaches the Scolia 4-pustulata of Fabricius, but 

 differs so much in the sculpture of the head and thorax as to re- 

 move all doubt of its being distinct. 



Genus Ammophila. 



Ammophila atripes, n. s. 



Female (length 10 lines) black, the face adorned with silvery 

 pile; the scape of the antennse ferruginous in front; the pro- 

 thorax and mesothorax transversely irregularly striate ; the meta- 

 thorax rugose ; the tubercles covered with silvery pile, the tegulse 

 rufo-piceous, the wings fusco -hyaline, darkest at their tips ; the 

 femora, tibise, and basal joint of the tarsi red, the apical joints 

 black; claws red, metathorax transversely striate. Abdomen, 



