68 SCOLIID^. 



the punctures larger and more scattered posteriorly, the 2nd 

 segment with a transverse impressed line at its apical margin. 

 Black, the pubescence cinereous -white, the spines on the legs pale 

 testaceous ; wings subhyaliue, faintly clouded at their apical 

 margins. 



Hah. India. $ . Length 13 ; e.vp. 23 mm. 



150. Myzine claripennis, n. sp. 



$ . Head, mesonotum, scutellum, postscutellum, median seg- 

 ment, and abdomen smooth and shining, with only a few scattered 

 punctures and some stiiJ sparsely placed hairs on the scape of the 

 antennae beneath, on the back of the head, and on the sides and 

 ventral segments of the abdomen ; legs somewhat more densely 

 pubescent ; pronotum, especially at base, rather closely punctured ; 

 median segment at base with a short, subtriangular, central, 

 longitudinal impression. Jet-black, the pubescence glistening 

 white, mandibles and the flagellum of the antennae beneath dull 

 red ; wings hyaline, lightly infuscated towards the apex. 



Var. Head and abdomen slightly more closely and finely 

 punctured ; tibiae and tarsi piceous ; wings somewhat more 

 fuscescent. 



Hah. Burma; Tenasserim. §, Length Q-\\; e.rp. 16-18 mm. 

 Type in the British Museum. 



151. Myzine dimidiaticornis, Bingh. Jow. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxv, 1896, 



p.423, d. 



(S . Head, thorax, and basal segment of the abdomen coarsely 

 punctured, the rest of the abdominal segments smooth and shining, 

 with a few scattered punctures ; antennse short and thick ; pro- 

 notum long, truncate anteriorly ; median segment subcylindrical, 

 truncate posteriorly, with a central longitudinal well-marked 

 carina, meeting a short transverse one at the margin of the trun- 

 cation ; abdomen long, subcylindrical, the segments strongly con- 

 tracted at their bases, the apical recurved spine large. Black, 

 the abdomen with brilliant blue and purple reflections, the man- 

 dibles, clypeus, scape, and basal four joints of the flagellum of the 

 antennae and the frontal tubercles above the base of the scape dark 

 red ; wings hyaline for their basal half, dark fuscous with a purple 

 effulgence beyond. 



Hah, Kumaun, North India, d • Length 14 mm. ; exj). 24 mm. 



152. Myzine dimidiata, Guer. Diet. pitt. d'Hid. Nat. v, p. 675, s ; 



Smith, Cat. iii, p. 71 ; Cam. Mem. Manch. L.Ph. Soc. (4) v, 1892, 

 p. 113. 

 Myzine uitida, Cam. {nee S)nif/i) t. c. p. 114. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen thinly pubescent, the pubescence 

 on the clypeus longer and thicker than on the rest of the head and 

 body ; front above the base of the antenna) and up to the ocelli very 



