190 SPHEGID^. 



Var, The mandibles, and the femora, tibiae, and tarsi of the legs 

 rufo-testaceous, the pubescence on the head and thorax rich ferru- 

 ginous ; wings with a deep golden tint. 



(5 similar, but the pygidial area covered with short silvery 

 pubescence. 



Bab. Sikhim ; Barrackpore ; Tenasserim ; North China. 2 . 

 Length 17-19 ; cv^. 35-39 mm. c? . Length 18 ; exj). 36 mm. 



368. Tachytes modesta, SmUh, Cat. iv, p. 299, $ : KoM, Verh. zool- 

 bot. Ges. Wien, 1884, p. 404; Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. 

 (4) ii, 1889, p. 186. 



2 6 • Head — the vertex wath some shallow scattered punctures ; 



thorax very finely and closely punctured, abdomen shining ; the 



clypeus, face in front, the cheeks behind the eyes, the pronotum, 



sides and apex of the mesonotum, postscutellum, and median 



segment with more or less dense pubescence, 



long and very close on the clypeus and the 



sides of the median segment ; abdomen thinly 



pubescent, with transverse bands of glittering 



pile on the apical margins of the basal four 



segments ; pygidial area covered with dense and 



stiif ( § ) or sparse ( c? ) pubescence. Black, 



the pubescence on the head and thorax pale 



golden, the transverse bands on the abdomen 



Fig A2.— Tacki/ies and the stiff hairs on the pygidial area silvery ; 



modesta, J. f. the apical half of the femora, the tibiae and 



tarsi testaceous red ; wings hyaline, with a 



faint yellow tinge. 



Hab. Mussooree (N.W.P.) ; Sikhim ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; 

 China. $ c5'. Length 11-15; exp. 23-28 mm. 



369. Tachytes ornatipes, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) ii, 1889, 



p. 137. 



J . Very closely allied to T. modestus, Smith ; differs in the 

 body, especiallv the abdomen, being longer and more slender, in 

 the colour of the legs, which are black, the tibiae and tarsi of the 

 anterior and the tarsi of the intermediate legs only being testa- 

 ceous, and the tibiae of the intermediate and the tibiae and tarsi of 

 the posterior legs fusco-testaceous ; the wings in T. ornatipes, too, 

 are, on the whole, somewhat lighter in colour than in T. modestus. 



Hab. Barrackpore, Bengal. S • Length 12 ; eccp. 22 mm. 

 Type in coll. Eothney. 



370. Tachytes nitidula. 



Crabio nitidulus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii, p. 294. 



Tachytes nitidula, Dahlb. Hxjm. Eur. i, p. 470, (S ; Kohl, Verh. 



zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1884, p. 404. 

 Tachytes nitidulus, Smith, Cat. iv, p. 298 ; Cam. Mem. Manch. L. 



Ph. Soc. (4) ii, 1889, p. 141. 



$ . Head opaque, the vertex sparsely punctured, a deep 



