ODTNEEUS.^ — PTEEOCHILUS. 373 



behind each eye ; clypeus finely punctured, with a yellow ^pot on 

 each side. Protliorax with a transverse attenuated line which is 

 interrupted in the middle. Two yellow dots at the base of each 

 fore wing, the hind one divided. Metathorax with a short trans- 

 verse yellow line. Abdomen finely punctured hiudward ; 1 st and 

 2nd segments uith yellow hnid borders. Anterior femora with 

 a yellow apical stripe on the outer side. Wings blackish, veins 

 and stigma black. Length 5 lines ( = 11 mm.), wings 8 lines 

 (■=nearly 18 mm.)." 

 Hah. Ceylon. 



*658. Odynerus intendens, Walker, A. M. N. H. (3) v (18G0) p. 304. 

 Aucistocerus iuteudeiis, Motsch. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1863, p. 23. 



2 . " Black, roughly punctux-ed. Head with a red point behind 

 each eye and with another in the notch of each eye, a pale point 

 between the antennae, which are reddish beneath at the tips ; 

 clypeus thinly punctured, with a curved transverse piceous line at 

 its base ; scape yellow beneath. Abdomen smooth towards the 

 tip, 1st and 2nd segments with whitish hind borders. Tibiae and 

 tarsi beneath and knees 7-eddish, fore tibiae yellow on the inside. 

 Wings cinereous, veins and stigma black. Second submargiual 

 areolet divided by an additional veinlet. Length 4 lines ( = about 

 9 mm.), wings 6 lines, 



Hab, Ceylon. I have failed to identify this species. 



Genus PTEROCHILUS. 



Pterochilus, Klug, Beitr. z. Natwk. v. Weber und Mohr, i, p. 143 

 (1805). 



Type, P. pa??asu, Klug. 

 Range. Both hemispheres. 



Head slightly concave posteriorly ; eyes rather small in propor- 

 tion, reaching down to the base of the mandibles ; ocelli small, 

 placed in a triangle on the summit of the vertex ; clypeus roundly 



angular at base ; mandibles large 

 and powerful, crossing each other 

 behind the clypeus, and ciliated 

 on the outer side with fine hairs ; 

 labium long; labial palpi longer 

 than the lingua, t3-jointed, the 

 apical two ciHated with long liairs ; 

 maxillary palpi of 6 joints. Thorax 

 ovate, somewhat angular in front; 

 Fig. 110. ^hg median segment very steeply 



rterocUlics pulchellus, $ . \. ^\o^qA, but not vertical, the medial 



furrow ill-defined ; legs long and stout in proportion, intermediate 

 tibife with one a])ical spur : wings ample, radial cell of fore wing 

 broad, acute and elongate at apex, 1st cubital cell long, about 

 equal to the 2nd and 3rd united, 2nd subtriangular, tlio 3rd 

 higher than long, subquadrate. Abdomen, the basal segment 



