326 SPIIEGID.'E. 



and thin, only seen in certain lif^hts. Elack ; the sides and apex of 

 the clypeus obscurely, in the male yellow, in the female rufous ; the 

 posterior margin of the pronotum bright yellow ; the dense pile 

 on the clypeus and cheeks silvery ; wings hyaline, nervures and 

 tegulse dark testaceous brown. Mr. Cameron gives the anterior 

 legs as " brightly broad yellow beneath," but it is not so either in 

 the type or in the only other specimen in Mr. Eothney's col- 

 lection. 



Hah. Barrackpore, Bengal ; Bombay. $ 6 . Length 44-5 ; 

 exp. 9 mm. 



583. Crabro sodalis, n. sp. 



9 . Covered all over with a thin do\A-ny white pubescence ; head, 

 pronotum, scutellum, postscutellum, median segment, and abdomen 

 smooth, polished and shining, mesonotum a little opaque and 

 longitudinally striate ; from the apex of the enclosed triangular 

 space at the base of the median segment a vertical furrow, trans- 

 versely striate inside, runs to the apex of the median segment. 

 Black, the clypeus, face, and cheeks behind the eyes with dense 

 silvery pile; the scaj)e of the antennae, a broad line on the pi'O- 

 notum slightly interrupted in the middle, the tubercles, a spot on 

 the back of the tegulge, two spots behind it on each side of the 

 scutellum, a line on the postscutellum, the femora at apex, the 

 tibiae, and basal joint of the tarsi of all the legs above, and oval 

 lateral spots on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th segments of the abdomen, 

 yellow ; the posterior margins of all the segments narrowly testa- 

 ceous ; wings hyaline, nervures testaceous brown. 



Hab. Tenasserim. $ . Length 10 ; exp. 16 mm. 



*58 Jr. Crabro insignis, Smith, Cat. i\, p. 422 ; Cam. Mem. Manch. L. 

 Ph. Soc. (4) iii, 1890, p. 270. 



" $ . Black ; head opaque, subquadrate, rather wider than the 

 thorax ; the stemmata in a curve placed forwards on the vertex ; 

 the clypeus covered with pale golden pubescence ; antennae and 

 mandibles black. Thorax opaque, the collar grooved, with the 

 anterior angles acute ; the mesothorax longitudinally striated, with 

 three abbreviated carinse in front ; the metathorax with a half- 

 circular space at base enclosed by a sharp ridge, in the centre of 

 which are two longitudinal carinae ; on each side it is striate, the 

 sides coarsely rugose, behind transversely striate ; the wings fusco- 

 hyaline with a violet iridescence, nervures rufo-fuscous ; anterior 

 tibiae ferruginous within ; the posterior femora with a yellow stripe 

 above, and the tibiae with a stripe outside. Abdomen shining, the 

 1st segment with a yellow baud in the middle, which emits a 

 quadrate spot in front and has two deep notches behind ; the 2-5 

 segments with a yellow fascia at their basal margins, which are 

 narrowed in the middle ; beneath the 2nd and 3rd segments have 

 a yellow spot on each side. 



" Hab. India {Smith). 2 • Length 14 mm." 



