176 POMPILID*. 



349. Ceropales pernix, Bimjh. Jour. Lhm. Soc. 1896, p. 425. 



<S . Head, thorax, and abdomen smooth, slightly shining ; head 

 broad, broader than the thorax, labrum exserted, clypeus transverse 

 anteriorly, slightly convex ; antennae stout, porrect ; eyes convergent 

 below, a deeply impressed vertical hne from the anterior ocellus to 

 between the base of the antennae ; pronotum short, its posterior 

 margin widely arched ; mesouotimi with two parallel, medial, 

 longitudinally impressed furrows ; median segment long, rounded 

 posteriorly, with a steep slope to its apex ; legs long, the tibiae and 

 tarsi unarmed, nearly smooth ; abdomen about as long as the 

 thorax, slightly compressed laterally. Light testaceous brown, 

 the clypeus, the inner margin of the eyes broadly, and the 

 posterior margin of the pronotum pale yellow : wings hyaline 

 and beautifully iridescent, the cubital and discoidal nervures 

 produced to the apical margin of the fore wing, the transverse 

 basal nervures interstitial ; the tegulse, stigma, and nervures brown. 

 Hab. Tenasserim. S • Length 8 ; exp. 15 mm. 



350. Ceropales alhovariegata, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. xli, 1897. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen smooth ; head broad, the front 

 only slightly convex, and the vertex nearly flat, the occiput 

 transverse, a remarkable subcordate projection on the front above 

 the base of the antennte, the projection grooved down the middle 

 or bilobed ; mesonotum with two parallel well-marked longitudinal 

 furrows ; median segment rounded posteriorly, with a some- 

 what steep slope to the apex and a medial longitudinal furrow ; 

 abdomen short, slightly laterally compressed. Testaceous yellow ; 

 the head, pro- and mesonotum black ; the clypeus, the sides of the 

 face broadly, the projection above the base of the antennae, the 

 inner and outer orbits, the inferior lateral angles and posterior 

 margin of the pronotum, three irregular spots beneath the wing on 

 the pleurae, a spot above the tegulae, and the inferior apical lateral 

 angles of the median segment, white ; the scape in front testaceous 

 yellow ; the basal three joints of the flagellum of the antennae 

 beneath fulvous ; wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures and 

 tegulae testaceous. 



Hab. Ceylon. $ . Length 9 ; exp. 17 mm. 



*351. Ceropales claripennis, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc (4) iv, 

 1891, p. 433. 

 " Black, shining, the mandibles, clypeus, face, orbits, except 

 narrowly interrupted at the top, a hne on the pronotum behind, 

 the angles in front, a broad hne at the apex of the mesonotum, 

 a line on the scntellum, the metanotum, a narrow line 

 down the middle of the median segment, the propleurae 

 beneath, a broad oblique line on the mesopleurae above and 

 two smaller ones on the lower half, and two large marks on the 

 metapleurae, clear yellow. Abdomen ferruginous, the extreme 

 base black. Legs reddish, the fore coxae yellow, with a black 



