BEMBEX. 287 



I have not been able to procure a $ , but, according to Smith, 

 the sexes are identical, with of course the exception of the 

 anteiinte, femora, and 1st ventral segment; these in the $ would 

 be simple (without spines, teeth, &c.). 



Hah. Sikhim ; Burma ; Sumatra, and the Indo-Malavan region 

 generally. $ . Length 17-23 mm. c? . Lenyth 18-22 ; eocp. 

 33-41 mm. 



*517. Bembex buddha, Handl. Sitzungsb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, cil 1893, 

 p. 782. 



"Antennae (S) incrassate, 8-11 joints spined below, 11-12 

 distinctly excavated below. Femora ( J ) dentate ou the apical 



half below Wings distinctly fuscescent, nerviires 



brown. 5 6th abdominal segment above without a medial area. 

 cT apex of 7th segment rounded, not angulate laterally, a medial 

 small carina towards the apex of the 2nd ventral segment, a small 

 tubercle on the 6th, and tliree strongly convergent carinse on the 

 7th segment. Thorax punctured and pubescent. Black, the 

 orbits of the eyes, the front below, the labrum, the clypeus, with 

 the exception often of two spots, the prothorax, the tubercles, 

 four broad lines on the mesonotum, a fascia on the scutellum and 

 on the metanotum, nearly the whole of the median segment, the 

 greater part of the sides of the thorax, a broad fascia ou the 1st 

 abdominal segment, the 2nd segment, excepting the posterior 

 margin and two spots on the disc, broad fasciae, anteriorly bi- 

 sinuate, on the following segments, the apex of the apical segment 

 (6 & $ ), and a spot on all the ventral segments yellow. Antennae 

 black, scape anteriorly yellow ; legs yellow, lined towards the 

 base with black." 



Hab. Barrackpore, Tirhoot, and Madras. Length 21-23 mm.'' 

 Unknown to me. Apparently originally in coll. Rothney. 



518. Bembex sulphurescens, Bahlb. Hym. Eur. i, pp. 180, 491, s ; 

 Smith, Cat. iv, p. 328 ; Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iii 

 1890, p. 247. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pubescent, the pubescence 

 longish, soft, and erect on the vertex and back of the head and on 

 the sides and apex of the median segment ; the head smooth, 

 finely and rather closely punctured behind the ocelli ; thorax and 

 abdomen with rather close but shallow fine punctures studded 

 with recumbent hairs ; vertex concavely depressed, the lateral 

 furrows wide and shallow, ocellar area only slightly raised ; eyes 

 very little divergent beneath. Black, the labrum, base of the 

 mandibles, clypeus, sides of the face as high nearly as the vertex, 

 a doll-shaped mark on the front, the scape of the antenna;, the 

 outer orbits up to the vertex, the pronotuin, a LJ -shaped mark on 

 the disc, and the lateral margins of the mesonotum broadly, a 

 broad curved line on the scutellum, another on the postscutellum, 

 a third widest in the middle on the median segment, the posterior 



