﻿Hymenoptera 
  Orientalis. 
  41 
  

  

  a 
  sericeous 
  pile, 
  and 
  the 
  fore 
  tibiae 
  are 
  spined 
  on 
  the 
  

  

  outer 
  side. 
  

  

  I. 
  LiRIS 
  H^MORRHOIDALIS. 
  

  

  Pompiluis 
  Ji<2morrhoidalis^ 
  Fab., 
  Syst. 
  Piez. 
  198. 
  

  

  Liris 
  Savignyi, 
  Spinola, 
  Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Fr. 
  VII., 
  p. 
  476. 
  

  

  Lyrops 
  mireiventris, 
  Guerin, 
  Icon. 
  regn. 
  anini. 
  t. 
  III., 
  440, 
  

   pi. 
  LXX. 
  f. 
  9. 
  $ 
  . 
  

  

  Liris 
  orichalcea, 
  Dahlbom, 
  Hyni. 
  Ent. 
  I., 
  135. 
  

  

  Tacky 
  tes 
  ilhcdens, 
  St. 
  Fargeau, 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  Ins. 
  Hyin. 
  Ill,, 
  

   249, 
  12. 
  

  

  Larrada 
  hcemorrhoidalis. 
  Smith, 
  Cat. 
  Hym. 
  Ins. 
  IV., 
  280. 
  

  

  Larrada 
  hcBinorrhoidalis, 
  Kohl, 
  Verh. 
  z.-b. 
  Ges. 
  Wien, 
  

   1884, 
  256. 
  

  

  A 
  widely 
  distributed 
  species, 
  being 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  Mediter- 
  

   ranean 
  region, 
  Syria, 
  Egypt, 
  Senegal, 
  Gambia, 
  Sierra 
  Leone 
  ; 
  

   Punjaub, 
  Poona 
  ( 
  Wroughtori). 
  Smith 
  (/. 
  r.) 
  records 
  the 
  species 
  

   from 
  the 
  Punjaub, 
  but 
  he 
  omits 
  it 
  from 
  his 
  general 
  Catalogue 
  

   of 
  Indian 
  species 
  {Trans. 
  Linn. 
  Soc. 
  1869). 
  

  

  2. 
  Liris 
  auratus. 
  

  

  Sphex 
  aurata, 
  Fab., 
  Ent. 
  Syst. 
  II., 
  213, 
  64. 
  

  

  Liris 
  aurata. 
  Fab., 
  Syst. 
  Piez., 
  p. 
  228, 
  3. 
  Kohl, 
  Ver/i. 
  

  

  z.-b. 
  Ges. 
  Wien, 
  1884, 
  241. 
  

   Larrada 
  anrulenta, 
  Smith, 
  Cat. 
  Hym. 
  Ins. 
  IV., 
  276, 
  6, 
  

  

  pi. 
  VII. 
  fig. 
  5. 
  

   Tachytes 
  opnlenta, 
  St. 
  Fargeau, 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  Ins. 
  Hym. 
  

  

  III., 
  246, 
  7. 
  

   Widely 
  distributed. 
  India 
  (common 
  in 
  Calcutta 
  dis- 
  

   trict) 
  ; 
  Borneo, 
  Sumatra, 
  Java, 
  Bachian, 
  Celebes, 
  China, 
  

   Japan, 
  Cape 
  of 
  Good 
  Hope, 
  and 
  Gambia. 
  

  

  —3. 
  LiRIS 
  NIGRIPENNIS, 
  Sp. 
  nov. 
  

  

  Nigra, 
  iiitida, 
  punctata 
  ; 
  facie 
  clypeoque 
  argenteo 
  pilosis 
  ; 
  

   area 
  pygidialis 
  aiirea 
  hirsuta 
  ; 
  alis 
  fusco-violaceis. 
  Long. 
  

   $ 
  18 
  ; 
  $ 
  15 
  mm. 
  

  

  