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11. Mygnimia PERPLEXA. B.M. 



Female. Length 12 lines — Black : the head ferruginous. 

 The pro- and meso-thorax, the scutellura, post-scutellum and 

 tegulae, ferruginous ; the wings yellow, inclining to ferruginous 

 at their base ; the anterior wings have a dark fuscous border at 

 their apex, and the posterior pair have their inferior margins 

 fuscous towards their base ; the legs pale ferruginous and spi- 

 nose; the coxae and base of the femora black, the posterior 

 tibise serrated. Abdomen sessile, the apical segment ferrugi- 

 nous. 



Hab. Madras. 



This species differs from most of the species included in the 

 genus, in having the abdomen sessile and the metathorax trun- 

 cated ; but the wings agree in their neuration with the type, the 

 first recurrent nervure uniting with the second transverse one, 

 and the second submarginal cell being elongated. 



12. Mygnimia vespiformis. B.M. 



Female. Length 14 lines. — Black : head without pubescence ; 

 the antennae, palpi, labrum and mandibles, ferruginous; the 

 apex of the latter black. Thorax : the tibiae, tarsi, and apex of 

 the femora more or less reddish-yellow; wings dark fuscous, 

 with a violet iridescence ; a subhyaline spot at the base of the 

 second discoidal cell, and a transverse line near the apex of the 

 first submarginal cell ; the thorax is nearly destitute of pubes- 

 cence, there being only a few long hairs on the anterior coxae, 

 and a very short pubescence on the disk ; the metathorax trans- 

 versely rugose-striate, and rounded behind. Abdomen thinly 

 covered with short pubescence, concolorous with the parts it 

 covers ; the basal segment black, a band of the same colour on 

 the margin of the second, united by a central stripe to a narrow 

 one on the basal margin ; the third and fourth segments have a 

 fuscous band on their apical margins; the apex having some 

 long ferruginous pubescence. The bands on the abdomen differ 

 considerably in depth of colouring, in some specimens being only 

 fuscous. 



Hab. North China. (Coll. R. Fortune.) 



13. Mygnimia flavicornis. 



Sphex flavicornis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 216. 44. 

 Pepsis flavicornis, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 216. 44, ^ Mus. Dom. 

 Banks. 



Hab. Malabar. 



