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into large sub-ovate forms, the middle of the fasciz being 
of equal width; all the segments with a long cinereous 
fringe; the apical segment ferruginous above. 
The female of this species is described by Saussure in 
the Cat. des Espéc. Scolia, but he does not give the size, 
which varies in a series from three and a half to six 
lines; it is black and shining; its pubescence cinereous ; 
the head convex, smooth and shining; the thorax strongly 
punctured; the scutellum impunctate; the legs very 
pilose; the wings hyaline, the nervures ferruginous ; the 
first four segments of the abdomen fringed with white 
pubescence. 
PoMPILID. 
Agenia festinata. 
Female.—Length 54 lines. Black, with a silvery pile, 
observable in certain lights; wings hyaline, with a fuscous 
cloud, which occupies the basal half of the marginal cell, 
and descends into the third discoidal cell. The head, 
below the insertion of the antennz, covered with bright 
silvery pile; the mandibles rufo-piceous at their apex; 
the palpi obscurely testaceous. Thorax: the metathorax 
finely striated transversely; the wings hyaline; the ante- 
rior pair with a slight fulvous tint, and their apical margins 
slightly fuscous. Abdomen petiolated, the petiole short. 
Priocnemis peregrinus. 
Female.—Length 93 lines. Black: the head, antenna, 
pro- and meso-thorax, tegule and scutellum ferruginous ; 
the legs of the same colour, except the coxz, trochanters 
and extreme base of the femora, which are black; the man- 
dibles ferruginous, with their tips black; the metathorax 
transversely striated, and with a longitudinal central 
channel ; the wings brown, with a bright violet iridescence. 
Male.—Length 6—7 lines. Closely resembling the 
female ; but with the vertex of the head more or less 
fuscous, or black; the mesothorax and scutellum more or 
less obscure, sometimes quite black; the femora are also 
black, except towards their apex; three or sometimes four 
of the apical joints of the tarsi black; five or six of the 
apical joints of the antennze black. 
This insect was found at Calcutta, by Mr. Rothney ; it 
also occurs in Sumatra and at Hong Kong. 
Hab.—Barrackpore, &c. 
