LIANTHBENA. — PALARUS. 213 



I'anged in one unbroken row. Abdomen about as long as the head 

 and thorax united, the 1st segment concavo-truncate at bas*^, the 

 2nd ventral segment not con\exly raised, normal ; pygidial area 

 ( $ and (S ) bare, punctured, laterally ciliated with tine long 

 hairs. 



404. Lianthrena kohlii, n. sp. 



2 c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen smooth and shining ; the 

 vertex of the head, the mesonotum anteriorly, and the pygidial 

 area on the apical abdominal segment more or less punctured, the 

 convex raised space on the front above the base of the antennae 

 marked with a brief medial longitudinal furrow ; antennae — the 

 flagellum in the male with the apices of the 3rd and 4th joints 

 dilated beneath ; median segment above very iDdistiuctly but 

 finely reticulate rugose ; the sides smooth, a line medial longi- 

 tudinally-impressed line from the base of the segment continued 

 over the margin of the truncate portion but not reaching the apex. 

 Pale yellow, the apex of the mandibles ferruginous; the apical 

 ten joints of the Hagellum of the antennae, a spot on the front 

 above their base, two transverse spots above that, the region of 

 the ocelli, a line behind the eyes, three parallel broad lines on the 

 mesonotum, a T-shaped mark on the median segment above, a 

 spot near the apex of the same, the sternum, the base of the coxae, 

 and the apical two, sometimes three or four, segments of the 

 abdomen, black, the last sometimes also shaded with rusty red or 

 fulvous ; a little line silvery pile on the clypeus and sides and 

 apex of the median segment ; wings hyaline, uervures pale 

 testaceous, tegulae ferruginous. 



Hab. The Punjab. $ J. Length 8-9; ex^j. 17-18 mm. 



Genus PALARUS. 



Crabro, pt., Fabr. Spec. Tns. \, p. 470 (1781). 

 Philanthus, pt., Fahr. Syst. Fiez. p. 304 (1804). 

 Palaius, Latr. Hist. Nat. Ins. iii,p. 336 (1802). 

 Gonius, Jurine^ Hym. p. 205 (1807). 



Type, P.fiavi'pes, Fabr. 



Ranye. Palaearctic, Ethiopian, and Oriental regions. 



Pig. 52. — Palants : fore wing. 



Head about as broad as the thorax ; eyes large, their inner 

 orbits as a rule strongly convergent towards the vertex ; ocelli 

 complete, the anterior ocellus round, large and distinct, the 



