Manchester Memoirs, I'oL xiiv. {icjoo), No. 15. 77 



vous pubescence ; the p}-giclium is closely, lony;itU(lin;ill)- 

 striated; the petiole is rufous beneath; the keel is 

 indistinct. 



Comes near to ^f. ardesccns Smith ; that species may 

 be separated from it b)' the ferruginous antennae ; by the 

 tips of the femora onl\' being darker ; and b\' the sides of 

 the thorax being "■ rugose-punctate." 



In workini; ihrough the Khasia Ilymcnoplera I have noticed tlic fulluw- 

 ing omissions from the " Fauna of British India." 



il/utiJ/a intermedia Saussurc, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., Tome vii. (1867), 

 354. Ceylon. 



Gorytcs fe,c Ilandhrsch, Silzgunsh. K. Akad. Wiss. Wein, Bd. 104, 

 Abth. I, p. 890(1895). 1895-90. Pegu. 



If the Nicobar Islands are included in the scope of the work (and they 

 are quite as much part of "British India," politically and zoologically, as 

 Ceylon), the undernoted species should also be included : 



Polistes novai-a ^z.\\^>Mx^, Keise der Novava, Hynen. p. 19, f. 13, 14. 



Larrada insitlaris Saussure, Und. p. 73, f, 43. 



POMPILID.-E. 



POMPILUS CEVLONENSIS, Sp. 710V. 



Long, fere 6 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon {Rotlnicy).. 



This Ceylonese species comes near to P. totproboDm, 

 but is smaller, is more slenderly built, and more densely 

 pruinose all over ; the wings are darker coloured all over; 

 the upper half of the apical abscissa of the radius has a 

 much more distinct angle, the upper and lower halves 

 being more distinctly defined ; the second cubital cellule 

 at the top is longer compared with the first, and the second 

 recurrent nervure is received distinctly behind the middle. 



Antenna; stout, the flagellum densely covered with 

 white pubescence. Head densely pruinose all over, which 

 gives it a white appearance; the eyes hardly converge at 

 the top ; the hinder ocelli are separated from each other 

 by a slightly greater distance. Apex of clypeus trans- 



