Hymcnoptera Orient alls. 143 



TACHYSPHEX. 



Tachysphcx, Kdh\ Ber. Ent. Zeit. XXVI I., 166; Verh. 

 z.-b. Ges. IVie/i, 1884, 347, =Tac/ij/Us Auct. 



I. TACHYSPHEX ERYTHROGASTER, Sp. IIOV. 



Niger ; capite et thorace dense argenteo pilosis, basi anten- 

 naruni, clypeo, pedibns abdoniineque, rnfis, alis dare hyalitiis, 

 tegidis pallide riifis, nervis fiiscis. ?. Long. 13 mm, 



Antennse short, stout ; the third joint somewhat shorter 

 than the fourth. Head finely rugose, but the rugosity hid, 

 except in the centre of vertex, by the dense pubescence ; 

 ocellar region raised, broadly, but not deeply, furrowed in the 

 centre ; eyes at the top separated by the length of the third 

 and fourth antennal joints united. Clypeus with an oblique 

 slope at the apex, which is truncated ; labrum with an 

 incision in the middle ; mandibles red, black at the apex ; 

 the base covered with silvery pubescence. Mesonotum and 

 scutellum punctured ; the sculpture of the rest of thorax 

 hid by the dense covering of hair. The apex of metanotum 

 furrowed, perpendicular ; abdomen longer than the head 

 and thorax united, very finely aciculated ; the segments at 

 the apices bearing a band of silky pile ; pygidial area im- 

 punctate, narrowing to a point from the middle to the apex ; 

 the sides not very distinctly margined. The second cubital 

 cellule less than one-fourth shorter than the third, and of 

 the length of the space bounded by the recurrent nervures. 

 Legs sparsely pilose, the spines white, the spurs red, the 

 claws blackish. 



Hab. Poona ( Wroughton). 



2. TACHYSPHEX ARGYREA. 

 Larrada Argyrea, Smith, Cat. Hyni. Ins. IV. 

 The eyes at the top are separated by fully half the 

 length of the third antennal joint. The part in which are 



