BEMBEX. — PHIL.VNTHUS. 293 



the male has the antennas cylindrical throughout, the 9th-llth joints 

 not being flattened nor cariuate on the inner side; both sexes are 

 slighter and longer, the markings are brighter yellow, not lacteous, 

 and the transverse bands on the basal three abdominal segments 

 are more or less broadly interrupted in the middle. 



Hab. Tenasserim. § . Lewjth 22 ; exp. 34 mm. J . Length 21 ; 

 exp. 36 mm. 



529. Bemhex westonii, Binc/h. Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Sac. viii, p. 380, 

 $,pl.l,fig. 1. 



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

 abdomen extremely minutely and closely punctured and pubescent, 

 the pubescence longish on the occiput, vertex of the head, and 

 sides of the median segment ; clypeus lunate, convex, widely 

 emarginate anteriorly, depressed at base on either side of a medial 

 raised ridge, which is continued up the front to a little above the 

 base of the antennae, inner orbits parallel ; vertex of the head 

 subconcave, ocellar area raised, with a deep groove on each side, 

 occiput transverse; median segment with a broadly triangular 

 space at base enclosed by lateral convergent grooves, the posterior 

 lateral angles slightly produced and flattened. Black, mandibles 

 at base, clypeus, a doll-shaped mark above it, the inner and outer 

 orbits widely interrupted at the vertex, the scape of the antennae, 

 pronotura, the tubercles, posterior lateral angles of the median 

 segment, the greater part of the meso- and metapleurge, the legs, 

 an irregular elongate mark on each side of the basal three abdominal 

 segments, and a broad biarcuate transverse band on the 4th and 

 5th above yellow ; a spot on each side of the medial line of 

 the clypeus at base, the middle of the pronotum, a spot on the 

 tubercle, the greater part of the coxae, a stripe posteriorly and 

 anteriorly on each of the femora, and on the posterior tibiae above, 

 black ; anterior tarsi slightly ferruginous ; wings hyaline, nervures 

 and tegulae dark brown. 



d similar, a black spot above the clypeus between the bases of 

 the antennae, the yellow band on the -ith segment narrowly 

 interrupted in the middle, and a yellow spot on each side of the 

 6th segment of the abdomen. 



Hah. Tenasserim. $ . Length 22 ; exp. 39 mm. d . Length 

 23 ; exj). 40 mm. 



Genus PHILANTHUS. 



Philanthus, pt., Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii, p. 288 (1793). 

 Simblephilus, Jurine, Hym. p. 185 (1807). 

 Philanthus, Shuck. Indiyen. Foss. Hym. p. 24''5 (1837). 



Tvpe, P. coronatus, Fabr. 

 liatiye. Both hemispheres. 



