470 HYMENOPTERA. 



punctured ; the face below the antennae white ; the mandibles, 

 the scape in front, and two or three of the basal joints of the 

 flagellum, nearly white, the following joints becoming gradually 

 dark fusco-ferruginous towards the apex ; the eyes brown, a 

 black line round them above, from which a line passes across 

 the vertex, and a second across the forehead passing between 

 the ocelli. Thorax : the mesothorax with three longitu- 

 dinal black stripes united by a transverse line at the apical and 

 basal margins ; a black stripe at the extreme basal margin of the 

 metathorax, an angular black spot in the middle, in which is a 

 deep fossulet ; wings hyaline, the nervures pale testaceous, the 

 stigma yellow ; the femora pale ferruginous, their base and apex 

 yellow. Abdomen : the base and the apical margins of the seg- 

 ments ferruginous. 



Hab. Northern India. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



7. PHILANTHUS DEPREDATOR. 



Male. Length 6 lines. Ferruginous : the face as high as 

 the emargination of the eyes, the scape in front, the cheeks, 

 and the mandibles at their base, yellow. Thorax : the collar, 

 sides of the breast, the tegulae and a minute spot over them, the 

 scutellum, post-scutellum, and a spot on each side of the meta- 

 thorax, yellow ; an oblong depression at the base of the meta- 

 thorax in the middle, the depression black; the wings fulvo- 

 hyaline, the nervures ferruginous ; the apex of the wings clouded, 

 the anterior pair darkest ; the tibiae and tarsi yellow ; the ante- 

 rior and intermediate femora yellow beneath. Abdomen : the 

 second, third and fourth segments with a large yellow macula 

 on each side ; the fifth, sixth and seventh yellowish beneath ; 

 the second and third segments yellow, with their base narrowly 

 ferruginous ; the second segment has on each side a longitudinal 

 black line terminating at the middle of the segment. 



Hab. India. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



8. PHILANTHUS PALLIDUS. 



Philanthus pallidus, King, Symb. Pliys. dec. v. t. 47- f. 8 <J . 

 Hab. Ethiopia (Ambukohl). 



9. PHILAXTHUS DIMIDIATUS. ^ 

 Philanthus dimidiatus, Klug, Symb. Phys. dec. v. t. 4/. f . 7 

 Hab. Ethiopia (Ambukohl). 



