On new Indian Aculeate Tltjimnoptera. 511 



spending to the first two bands on the fore whigs ; a sub- 

 marginal, indistinct, brown line on botlr wings. 



Expanse of wings yo inch. 



Siam, Muok-Lek, 1000 feet, January [Fruhstorfer) . 



Allied to P. arbiter, Butler. Some of the examples are 

 very little more than half an inch in expanse of wings. 



Bocchoris amandalis, nov. 



^ . Palpi ochreous, top of second joint and the whole of 

 the third joint purple-brown ; head and thorax purple-brown 

 spotted with yellow ; abdomen with the first three segments 

 yellow above, the remaining segments purple-brown, with 

 white segmental bands : fore wings with the costa purple- 

 brown ; both wings with the outer third of the same colour ; 

 the interior of both wings yellow, the fore wings having 

 many yellow spots ringed with purple-brown; the hind wings 

 with an acute medial transverse purple-brown line, toucliing 

 a white spot in the middle of the wing, and four yellow spots 

 on the interior border of the marginal band, one near the 

 costa, the other three in the middle, touching each other. 

 Underside of body and legs white ; wings pale, with the 

 upperside markings showing through them. 



Expanse of wings -^q inch. 



Siam, Muok-Lek, 1000 feet, January [Fruhstorfer). 



LXXIV. — Neio Species of Indian Aculeate Hymenoptera. 

 By Major C. G. Nukse, Indian Army. 



[Contiuued from p. 403.] 



Pompilus venenatus, sp. n. 



? . Head and the greater portion of the thorax very 

 closely and finely punctured, the punctures only visible with 

 a microscope ; abdomen smooth and impunctate ; the post- 

 scutellum, episternum and median segment finely and 

 shallowly transversely striate ; head much wider than thorax, 

 clypeus very convex, arched anteriorly, a tubercle behind 

 the base of antenna-, bisected by a longitudinal impressed 

 line, w Inch reaches the anterior ocellus ; thorax when viewed 

 from the side very convex, the pronotum short and rounded 

 anteriorly, median segment emarginate at apex, the sides 

 rounded, with an obscure median longitudinal furrow ; abdo- 

 men very convex, second segment with a ventral furrow. 



