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the apex of the clypeus is smooth and has a round incision ; 

 the scutellum is punctured round the edges^ but the apex 

 itself is smooth ; the postscutellum is sparsely and more 

 finely punctured at the apex ; the basal halt' of the pygjidium 

 is closely and strongly punctured, and thickly covered with 

 long black hair. The hinder wings are lighter coloured than 

 the anterior. 



T . fumipennis of Bingham (Fauna of Brit. India, Hym. 

 p. 58) is clearly a different species from Smith's, and probably 

 represents a new species. 



Ceropalidae (olim PompiUdce). 



The name Pompilus has been found by Mr. Wm. J. Fox 

 (Ent. News, xii. 1901, p. 268)— see also Mr. Wm. H. 

 Ashmead, Canad. Ent., April 1902, p. 79 — to be preoccupied, 

 and its use therefore must cease in the Hymenoptera. 

 Mr. Ashmead has revised the classification of the family. 

 He has divided it into six subfamilies. His subfamily 

 Aporinse he divides into two tribes, the Anopliini and the 

 Aporini. The former he divides into thirty-one genera, and 

 it is practically equal to the genus Pompilus of Bingham's 

 ' Fauna of Brit. India,' Hymen. If Mr. Ashmead's views 

 are to be adopted, the Indian species must be split up into a 

 large number of genera. If only one genus is to be used, as 

 in Bingham's work, then the name Anoplius, Lep., must be 

 adopted. Not having had time to examine the European 

 and Asiatic species with the aid of Mr. Ashmead's papers, I 

 use here the name Anoplius in the sense in which Bingham 

 employs Pompilus. The latter name has been in use since 

 1798. Its disappearance and displacement by Anoplius will 

 certainly cause some confusion for a time. 



AnopUvs omaruSjS^. n. 



Black, shining, bare ; the wings fuscous hyaline, the 

 stigma and nervures black, the third cubital cellule appen- 

 diculated. ? . 



Length 10 mm. 



Hab. Khasia. Coll. Rothney. 



Antennae black, bare. Head shining, bare, except for a 

 few long black hairs on the vertex. Eyes distinctly con- 

 verging above; the hinder ocelli are separated from each 

 other by the same distance as they are from the eyes ; there 

 is a narrow longitudinal furrow on the lower half of the 

 front. Apexof clypeus transverse. Mandibles black, piceous 

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