290 SPHEGID^E. 



segment tiiberculate. Black, liead and thorax covered with 

 griseous pubescence ; the lai rum, clypeus, the front below, the 

 interior orbits widely, the exterior narrowly, a line on the pronotum, 

 the tubercles, a spot on the sides of ihe prothorax, mesothorax, 

 and median segment, uninterrupted bi8inuate fasciae on abdominal 

 segments 1-5 above, a cordiform spot on the -apical segment, 

 and rather large spots in the middle of the ventral segments pale 

 yellow ; legs variegated yellow and black ; antennae black, palish 

 below. 



c? has only the labrum yellow, the fascia on the Ist abdominal 

 segment wanting ; those on segments 2-4 narrow and interrupted 

 in the middle, and only the scape of the antennae pale beneath ; 

 wings ( 2 J ) hyaline, barely fuscescent. 



Ifah. Himalayas (i/rt»':7/'i/-j?c^); Mnssooree ; Gilgit. ?. Length 

 17-19 ; exp. 33 mm. d . Length 15 ; exp. 30 mm. 



523. Bembex pillguis, Handl. Sitzungsb. Akad. Wiss. Wien,c\\,\&d^, 



p. 784, pi. viii, tig. 4. 



2 S • Closely allied to and resembling Bembex meJancliolica, 

 Smith, 2 S '• ditfer in wanting the testaceous yellow LJ-shaped mark 

 on the mesonotum; 6 differs further in having the nnderside of the 

 intermediate femora dentate, and in the 2nd ventral segment 

 bearing a sharp, though small tubercle in the middle. 



Hab. Calcutta ; Assam ; Tenasserim ; Java. $ 6 . Length 

 20-23 ; exp. 36-38 mm. 



524. Bembex fossoria, Smith, Jour. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xlvii, pt. 2, 



1878, p. 1(:8, 2 ; Bingh. Jour. Bomb. Nnf. Hist. Soc. \, 1890, 

 p. 243, 2 ; Handl. Sitzungsb. Aknd. Wiss. Wien, cii, 1893, p. 895. 



2 . Clypeus and front smooth ; vertex of the head, thorax, and 

 abdomen punctured, thinly pubescent ; the punctures very fine, 

 not dense, and rather shallow, closer on the abdomen than on the 

 thorax ; clypeus strongly convex, its anterior margin transverse, 

 depressed at base on both sides of a medial 

 carina running up between the bases of the 

 antennae ; vertex concavely depressed, the ocellar 

 region crossed with a deep groove on each side; 

 occiput slightly emarginate, nearly transverse ; 

 antennae smooth and shining ; mesonotum ante- 

 riorly wiih a broad longitudinal depression, and 

 a short carina along the bottom. Black, the 



.p. „2 Bu he labrum, base of the mandibles, clypeus, scape of 



fossoria 9. '. the antennae, the front to a little above the base 

 of the latter, cheeks, posterior margin of the 

 pronotum, tubercles, a line over the tegulae, a parenthesis-shaped 

 mark on each side of the scutellum and along the posterior margin, 

 a crescentic mark on the postscutellura, a similar mark on the 

 median segment, a large irregular mark on its side, a spot on the 

 mesopleura; above, the greater part of the propleurae, the legs, and 



