EAST INDIAN HYMENOPTERA. 17 



ANOPLINI. 



Anoplius (Pompilus) orodes, sp. nov. 



Black ; densely pruinose ; the apex of the hinder femora broadly 

 and the hinder tibiae red ; the wings yellowish-hyaline, the apex from 

 the end of the radius smoky ; the third cubital cellule much narrowed 

 above. ? . Long. 13 mm. 



Hah. Darjeeling. 



Black ; pruinose ; the abdomen broadly banded with white pile ; 

 the apical third of the hinder femora and the hinder tibiae red. Head 

 very little developed behind the eyes ; the occiput transverse. Eyes 

 parallel, only very slightly converging above. Ocelli in a curve, the 

 hinder separated from each other by a greater distance than they are 

 from the eyes; there is a narrow furrow on the lower half of the front. 

 Apex of clypeus transverse, its sides rouuded. Thorax smooth, densely 

 pruinose ; the pronotum is as long as the head. Median segment 

 large ; the top flat ; the apex with an oblique slope, its sides slightly 

 dilated ; the outer edges broadly, roundly dilated ; below ending in a 

 tooth. The first and third transverse cubital nervures are broadly, 

 roundly curved ; the second is straighter and more oblique ; the fuscous 

 apical cloud commences at the end of the radial cellule, and does not 

 extend to the third transverse cubital nervure ; the third cubital cellule 

 is greatly narrowed above. 



Comes near to P. incognitas, Cam., but is a larger and stouter 

 insect ; has the third cubital cellule not petiolate, the apex of 

 the median segment not thickly covered with silvery matted 

 pubescence, and the wings are not uniformly infuscated. It has 

 the coloration of P. pedestris, but it wants the transverse furrow 

 on the second ventral segment found in that species. 



Obs. — P. vischnu, Cam., has nothing to do with P. incognitas, 

 Cam., as Bingham suggests (Hym. of India, 157). It would be 

 much better when an author, in a monographic work, cannot 

 quote a species with certainty as a synonym, to give the original 

 description in full. Vischnu, Cam., has the legs entirely black, 

 and has not the hinder femora and tibiae red, as in incognitus. 

 It is related, as I have stated (Manr. Memoirs, 1891, 469), 

 to P. vivax, Cam. So, too, on p. 169, hero, Cam., is doubtfully 

 referred to P. rothneyi. There are considerable differences in 

 coloration between them, and although the two might be sexes 

 of one species, it would have been better, and have saved the 

 student trouble, if the original description had been given in full, 

 seeing that the identity of the two species was so doubtful. 



ENTOM. — JANUARY, 1905. 



