134 SPHEGID^. 



one on each side, meeting below the edge of the truncation in a small 

 depression, the enclosed space coriaceous, with a medial longitudinal 

 faintly-marked cai'ina, the sides and truncated portion of the 

 segment rugose-punctate; abdomen smooth, shading, with a few 

 scattered delicate punctures. Black, the front below the ocelli 

 with a transverse yellow mark rounded at the sides, emarginate in 

 the middle anteriorly ; abdomen with the basal three segments and 

 sides of the 4th red above; the head, thorax, and abdomen covered 

 with a very spare, soft, erect fuscous pubescence ; wings hyaline, 

 the fore wing anteriorly light fuscescent; nervures testaceous, tegulae 

 yeUow. 



Hah. Mussooree. S . Length 9 ; exp. 17 mm. Type in coll. 

 Eothney. This is the Eastern representative of the British 

 A. stigma. 



358. Astata agilis, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 39, ^ ; Kohl, Verh. 

 zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 18S4, p. 447 ; Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. 

 Soc. (4) ii, 1889, p. 150. 



5 . Head — the clypeus, the cheek and occiput, the pronotum, 

 the sides and apex of the median segment, the coxae and femora 

 of the legs, and the base of the abdomen covered with a long thin 

 soft pubescence ; the head in front closely punctured and bearing 

 a medial short vertical furrow in front of the anterior ocellus; 

 pro- and mesonotum less closely punctured ; the scutellum large, 

 prominent, smooth and shining; the median segment long, truncate 

 at apex ; above and at base longitudinally reticulate, and bearing 

 a fine medial longitudinal carina ; abdomen broad, short (very short 

 and subcordate in shape in the 6 ), acutely pointed at apex, very 

 minutely and closely punctured at the bases of the segments. 

 Black, the apical margin of the 1st, the whole of the 2nd, and the 

 base narrowly of the 3rd abdominal segment red ; wings hyaline, 

 with a faint fuscous cloud beyond the stigma, the apex pale ; 

 nervures and tegulfe testaceous. 



cJ similar but smaller, more pubescent. 



Var. The fore Aving flavo-hyaline from base to apex of radial 

 cell, hyaline beyond. 



Hah. Nishchindeepore ; Tirhoot ; Poona ; Sikhim ; Tenasserim. 

 $ , Length 7|-9 ; exp. 14 mm. S • Length 7-8 ; exp. 14 mm. 



359. Astata tarda, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. xli (1897). 



S . Closelv resembles A. agilis, Smith, from which it can be 

 distinguished by being much more finely and closely punctured and 

 laro-er. Head in front, pro- and mesonotum, scutellum and post- 

 scutellum finely and closely punctured ; median segment coarsely 

 reticulate, above the apex truncate ; the head in front, the pronotum, 

 apex of the median segment, and base of abdomen covered with a 

 soft long thin silvery pubescence. Black, the apical margin of the 

 1st, the whole of the 2nd, and the basal half of the 3rd abdominal 

 segment red ; wings hyaline, very faintly fuscous on the apical 

 margin ; nervures and tegulse dark brown. 



Huh. Ceylon, d • Length 10 ; ex2). 18 mm. Type in coll. Eothney. 



