I04 Mr. Cameron on 



Pelopoeus javanus. 



Wallace states {Jour. Linn. Soc. Zool. XL, p. 296) that 

 this species enters houses where it constructs small earthen 

 cells, which it stores with paralysed spiders as food for its 

 young. According to Maurice Maindron {Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 Fr. 1878, p. 390) the largest nests are 7 centimetres long 

 by 5 in breadth ; contain five cells and are made of treaded 

 mud, almost black in colour, but covered in parts by a layer 

 of white earth. The largest and external cell is incomplete 

 and is formed of a whiter earth than the others. In form 

 the nests are irregular and arched ; and Wallace (/. ^.) 

 mentions that they may be plastered over with mud in an 

 irregular manner, so that the shape is completely hidden. 

 The cocoon is Je of an inch in length, and of a delicate 

 brown colour. 



P. COROMANDELICUS. 



This species has frequently the scutellum and 

 metanotum without the reddish spot. The clypeus is 

 reddish towards the apex, which is incised in the middle. 

 The mesonotum is transversely striated ; the scutellum 

 finely longitudinally striated, but not nearly so strongly as 

 the mesonotum ; the pronotum is depressed in the middle ; 

 the second cubital cellule is not much narrowed above 

 compared to the bottom, and is broad compared to the 

 length ; the first recurrent nervure is received a little 

 before the middle. 



Sphex. 



SpJiex, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. II., p. 198. 



CJilorion^ Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crnst. et Ins. IV., p. 57 

 {partivi). 



PronceuSy Latreille, loc. cit. IV., p. 56 ; Saunders, Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. III., p. 58. 



Priononyx, Dahlbom, Hyni. Ent. I., p. 28. 



Harpactopiis, Smith, Cat. Hyni. Ins. IV., p. 264. 



