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large spot behind them on the mesopleurge, a spot on the lateral 

 angles of the scutellum, the postseutellum, and large oval subapical 

 spots on each side of the basal five segments of the abdomen, 

 yellow ; legs yellow, the coxae above, the bases of the anterior and 

 intermediate femora in front above, and all but the apex of the 

 posterior femora black ; the base of the abdominal segments lined 

 with silvery pile ; wings hyaline, nervures testaceous ; tegulse 

 yello^^■, with a spot of black in the middle. 



Hah. Poona. 6 . Length 8 ; ea^y. 16 mm. § unknown. Type 

 in coll. Eothney. 



Mr. Cameron in his description notes the markings and legs 

 red, but that colour in the type specimen is without doubt due 

 to potassium cyanide. 



590. Crabro palicans, Bififfh. P. Z. S. 1896, p. 446, pi. 15, fig. G, § . 



5 . Head and thorax very finely aciculate, dull and opaque ; 

 abdomen very finely and closely punctured, shining and polished ; 

 clypeus with an obscure vertical carina in the middle, the clypeus 

 and the inner and outer orbits of the eyes, broadly interrupted at 

 A^ertex, densely pilose ; pronotum notched in the middle, mesonotum 

 with a longitudinally impi^essed medial line anteriorly ; median 

 segment short, with a vertical slope to the apex, an enclosed trian- 

 gular space at its base obliquely striate and medially longitudinally 

 grooved ; legs stout, the posterior tibiae on the outside slightly 

 spinose ; abdomen about as long as the head and thorax, fusiform. 

 Black ; the clypeus and the orbits of the eyes with dense silvery 

 pile ; the scape of the antennae, a broad line on the pronotum, a 

 spot behind the tegulae, the scutellum in the middle, a line on the 

 postseutellum (wanting in some specimens), the apex of the femora, 

 and a more or less lengthened spot on the outer side of all the 

 tibiae, and lengthened lateral spots at the bases of segments 2-5 

 of the abdomen, yellow ; wings fuscous with a slight purple 

 effulgence, nervures and tegulae testaceous. 



Bab. North-west India, Kumaun ; Ceylon. Probably will be 

 found throughout India. 5 . Length 11 ; edjy. 20 mm. 



*591. Crabro fuscipeiinis, Lepel. Aim. Soc. Ent. Fr. iii (1834), p. 710 ; 

 id. Hym. iii, p. 113 ; Smith, C'«^. iv, p. 422; Cam. Mem. 3Ianch. 

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



" Head black, mandibles black, with a spot of yellow on the 

 middle. Antenna? black, the basal segment yellow, the apex black. 

 Thorax black, lightly punctured, not shining. A yellow inter- 

 rupted line on the pronotum. The tubercles yellow. Scutellum 

 and. postseutellum black. Metathorax striate, the striae outwardly 

 divergent. Abdomen black, shining, the 2nd, 3rd, and 4tli 

 segments with a line of yellow on each side at base, narrow and 

 somewhat obliquely set, the 5th segment margined posteriorly 

 with reddish yellow. Legs red, the anterior femora, the inter- 

 mediate and posterior tibia), and the tarsi of all the legs blackish. 



