110 POMPILID^. 



abdomen fusiform. Black ; the clypeus, the sides of the face up to 

 the vertex, a line behind the eyes, a broad stripe on the posterior 

 margin of the pronotum, a square spot at apex of mesonotum, the 

 scutellum and postscutellum in the middle, and the apex of the 

 femora, the tibiae, and tarsi of the legs chrome-yellow ; the posterior 

 tibia? at apex, and the apical joint of the intermediate and posterior 

 tarsi fuscous : wings flavo-hyaline with a golden lustre, the apex 

 deeply infuscated. 



Hah. Sylhet, probably also Burma and Tenasserim ; the Malay 

 subregion as far as Celebes. 6 . Lenr/tJi 16 ; wys. 34 mm. 



218. Pseudagenia deceptrix. 



Pompilus deceptor, Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc. 1859, p. 12, c? {nee 

 Agenia recte Pseudagenia deceptor, Smith, A. M. N. H. (4) xi, 

 1873, p. 447). 



$ , Head and thorax in front dull, opaque, very finelv and 

 minutely punctured; median segment transversely striate; abdomen 

 smooth, polished and shining ; clypeus subconvex, its anterior 

 margin produced, subangular in the middle, oblique at the sides ; 

 pronotum very short, anteriorly somewhat truncate, the trunca- 

 tion rounded ; median segment long, bulging at the sides, 

 rounded posteriorly, with a very gradual slope to the apex, and 

 bearing a medial, broad, but shallow longitudinal furrow ; legs 

 long, the tibiae and tarsi with very minute spines; abdomen short, 

 petiolate, not so long as the thorax. Pale reddish yellow, the apical 

 three joints of the flagellum of the antennae fuscous ; wings light 

 flavo-hyaline, the apex beyond the 1st cubital cell broadly and 

 lightly pubescent. 



S ' similar but slighter, the vertex and mesonotum generally 

 fuscous black. 



Hah. Bengal ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; Celebes. $ . Lenyth 15-18 ; 

 exp. 34-38 mm. 6 • Length 13 ; exp. 35 mm. 



219. Pseudagenia frauenfeldiana. 



Agenia frauenfeldiana, Sauss. Novara Beise, Hym. p. 53, pi. iii, 



fig. 35. 

 Pseudao-enia frauenfeldiana, Cam Mem. Munch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iv, 



1891^ p. 437. 



$ . Head, thorax in front, and abdomen smooth, but not 

 shining ; the clypeus convex, its anterior margin rounded and 

 projecting ; the postscutellum and median segment transversely 

 striated, the former with a longitudinal broad sulcation in the 

 middle, the latter with a rounded regular slope to its apex ; legs 

 long, their armature feeble, the tibiae almost smooth ; abdomen 

 subpetiolate and fusiform. Variegated with red and black, the 

 head red, the face above the antennae with a crown-shaped mark 

 and above this a broad V-shaped macula, black ; thorax and 

 abdomen red, the sides, the apex of the metanotum, the coxae and 

 trochanters, the apical half of the 2nd and the whole of the 

 following segments of the abdomen black; wings flavo-hyaline, the 



