376 Mr. R. E. Tnvuer on Fossorial Ilymenoptera, 



The name oceonicus, being preoccupied, has to be chauged, 

 Sdiulz having priority. 



Dasyproctus op'ifex, Bingli. 

 .Crahro opifex, Bingli. Faun. Brit. India. Hym. i. p. 823 (1897). $ . 



Dasyproctus biiddha, Cam. 



Hhopahon bnddJia, Cam. Mem. Alancli. Lit. & Phil. Soc. (4) ii. p. 18 



(1889). d. 

 Crabro buddha. Cam. Mem. Mancli. Lit. & Phil. Soc. (4) iii. p. 270 



(1890). S ; Bingh. Faun. Brit. India, Hvm. i. p. 323 (1897). S • 

 Crabro brookii, Bingh. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxv. p. 444 (1896). 2 • 



I think there can be no doubt that buddha and brookii are 

 sexes o£ oue species. 



Dasyproctus orientalis, Cam. 



Crabro orientalis, Cam. Mem. Mauch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. (4) iii. p. 272 

 (1890). 



Dasyproctus solitarius, Sm. 

 Crabro solitarius, Sm. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. iii. p. 162 (1858). ? • 



Crabro [Ceratocolus) alatus, Panz. 



Crabro atatus, Panz. Faun. Insect. Germ. iv. (1797). 

 Crabro quadriceps, Bingh. Faun. Brit. India, Hym. i. p. 327. 



Hab. Kumaun. 



This wide-ranging species extends to N. China and N.W, 

 India. 



Crabro auricomus, Bingh. 



Crabro auricomus, Bingh. Faun. Brit. India, Hrm. i. p. 327 (1897). 2 • 

 Crnhro lihasianus, Cam. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) x. p. 61 (1902). 



$• 

 There is only a slight colour-difFei'ence between the types. 

 The species seems to me to be a Crabro of the same group as 

 C. fossorius, but I cannot see the structure of tlie mandibles 

 distinctly. The striatiou of the mesonotum is transverse, 

 not longitudinal. 



Crabeo, subgenus Solenius. 



It is unfortunate that Ashmead, in selecting a type for 

 Soleuius, Lep., should have departed from Kohl's indication 

 of the typical forms of the group and selected C. interrvptiis, 



