AMMOjeHILA. — SCEMPHRON". 2.M5 



rt'inarkably long and powerful; clypeus convex, arcuate anteriorly; 

 the head, the pronotuni hi front, and ihe sides of the median segineuo 

 sliglitJy pubescent. Intensely black ; wings fuscous with a slight 

 purple effulgence, the hind wing a little paler ; pubescence black. 

 llah. lieluchistan, Afgiianistan. 2 • ^I'lyth ^i ; fu-;^''. 28 mm. 

 d unknown. Type in the .British Museum. 



444. AmmopMla erythrocephala. 



8phex erythrocephala, I'ttdr. Eat. Si/st. p. 204. 



Pelopoeus crythroccphahis, Fahr. Si/sf. I'icz. p. 203. 



Amniupliila orythruceplialii, Lepel. Jli/in. iii, p. 3H'); Smith, Cat. iv, 



p. 2l(j^ Cam. Mem. Almich. L. Ph. iSoc. (4) li, 1889, pp. !)4 A: 100. 

 '^ Atnm()])lnla viohiccapeuiiis, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. I'k. ISoc, (4j li, 



188l», pp. U4 & 100, J. 



$ . Head, pronotnm, legs, and abdomen smooth and shining ; 

 mesonotum finely reticulate, scutellum and postscutellum longi- 

 tudinally striate; median segment coarsely reticulate above along 

 the middle, and transversely striate ou the sides ; clypeus broader 

 than high, slightly convex, its anterior margin transverse in the 

 middle, oblique at the sides ; eyes parallel. Black, the head, the 

 pronotum, legs, and petiole of the aljdomeu red ; the abdonum blue- 

 black ; the apical half of thi; Hagellum of the antenii:o Iilack, the 

 Scape and basal half red ; the coxa), trochanters, and apical joint 

 of the tarsi fuscous ; wings fuscous with a purple effulgence. 



<S . The head from fuscous red to black, the clypeus ])rojecting 

 a little, the eyes convergent below (var. violaoeijtenuis, Cam.). 



Hah. Throughout India except in the extreme South and 

 South-west (Malabar). 5. Length 32-34; exjj. 50-52 mm. 

 J. Length 29-31 ; e.vp. 48-51 mm. 



Genus SCELIPHRON. 



Sceliphron, Elug, Neue Schrift. d. Ges. naturf. Freunde zu Bcrl. 



iii, p. 5.'3,5 (1801). 

 Pelopcjeus, Lntr.Uist. Nat. Ins. xiii, p. 294 (1804). 

 I'epsis, pt., Illuj. Fd. Faun. Etrusc. ii, p. 94 (1807). 

 Chalybion, Dahlb. Ilym. Eur. i, p. 21 (1845). 



Fig. .59. — Sceliphron formosum, 5. \. 



Type, S. sjyirifex, Linn. 

 Kanye. Over both hemispheres. 



In the fore wing the 2nd cubital cell receives both recurrent 

 nervures, and is narrowed at the top by the convergence of the 1st 



