POMPILUS. CE110PALE3. 173 



1st cubital cell, and a subapical spot beyond the radial cell lacteous 

 M'hite ; hind wing clear h3raline. 



Hab. Tenasserim. ^ . Lemjth 11 ; exp. 20 mm. c? unknown. 

 Type in British Museum. 



3-44. Pompilus lusciosns, n. sp. 



5 . Head and thorax in front strongly aciculate ; scutelhnn, 

 postscutellum, and median segment transversely striate ; abdomen 

 smooth and shining ; head convex anteriorly, the occiput markedly 

 concave, the clypeus transverse, very narrow; antenntc stout, their 

 bases low down just above the clypeus; vertex very slightly arched, 

 nearly flat, the ocelli particularly small and inconspicuous ; pro- 

 notutn and median segment both much lengthened, subcylindrical, 

 the former rounded and narrowed towards the head, the latter 

 abruptly rounded at apex ; legs stoutish, the tibite and tarsi with 

 minute spines ; abdomen long, as long as the head and thorax 

 together, pseudosessile, subcylindrical ; the apical segment long 

 and acute at apex. Head and abdomen black ; thorax dull red ; 

 the scape, the basal four joints of the flagellura of each antenna, 

 and the legs fuscous red, the tibial spurs testaceous : wings 

 fuscous ; fore wing with a large spot in the medial cell, an oblique 

 fascia crossing from the base of the stigma to the posterior margin, 

 and the apex of the wing milky white ; hind wing lighter fuscous, 

 nervures and tegulae testaceous. 



Hah. Ceylon. $ . Length 7 ; exp. 12 mm. 



This well-marked little species is a typical Ferreola, a genus 

 which merges into Pom^nlus. 



Genus CEROPALES. 



Evania. pt., Fabr. Spst Ent. p. 345 (1775). 



Ceropales, Latr. Free, caract. gen. Ins. p. 123 (1796); Fabr. Syst. 



Piez. p. 185 (1804) ; S^nith, Cat. iii, p..l77 (1855) ; Kohl, V'erh. 



zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1884, p. 51. 



Fig. 38. — Ceropales per nix, (^ . f. 



Type, 0. maculata, Eabr, 

 Bamje. Both hemispheres. 



Head with the labrum exserted beneath the clypeus : eyes 

 reaching up to the base of the mandibles ; antennce in the 5 like 



