Indian Aculeate Ilymenopteva. 517 



rugose ; abdomen finely aciculate ; clypeus convex, slightly 

 rounded anteriorly, front concave near base of antennse, but 

 convex in the ocellar region, with the usual ocellar pad, 

 which is bisected by a longitudinal impressed line, extending 

 from base of antennae to vertex ; median segment truncate 

 posteriorly, the sides slightly rounded ; abdomen with the 

 apical margins of segments 1-3 slightly depressed. Black ; 

 the tibiee and tarsi rufo-testaceous ; clypeus and front with 

 very short silvery pile, which takes in some lights a golden 

 tinge; thorax with a little greyish pubescence, thickest on 

 the sides of the median segment; abdomen almost entirely 

 devoid of pile or pubescence ; wings hyaline, nervures and 

 tegulse testaceous ; the emargination of the anterior femora 

 is conspicuous. 



Long. 7-8 raillim. 



Hob. Deesa ; not common. 



Nearest to T. pollux above. 



Tachysphex projectus, sp. n. 



? , Clypeus anteriorly somewhat sparsely punctured, 

 remainder of head and thorax finely and closely punctured ; 

 median segment above very finely longitudinally striate ; 

 abdomen smooth and shining ; clypeus very convex, trans- 

 verse anteriorly, an impressed line from the base of antennas 

 through the ocellar pad to the vertex; median segment 

 rounded posteriorly. Head and thorax black; abdomen red, 

 darker towards the apex ; front with very short sparse silvery 

 pile; thorax and legs with a little greyish pile; abdomen 

 bare ; all the tarsi more or less rufo-testaceous at apex, and 

 their spines pale testaceous ; wings subhyaline, nervures and 

 teg alee dark testaceous. 



Long. 7 millim. 



Hab. Kashmir, 5000-6000 feet ; a single specimen. 



Should come in Bingham's key under " B. b. c' . Median 

 segment longitudinally striate." 



Tachysphex conclusus, sp. n. 

 ? . Head and thorax granular, appearing, when viewed 

 through a microscope, finely and regularly punctured ; abdo- 

 men finely aciculate ; clypeus very convex, rounded anteriorly, 

 and emarginate in the centre, a median longitudinal im- 

 pressed line from base of antennae through ocellar pad to the 

 vertex ; median segment with the sides compressed at apex; 

 abdomen about the same length as thorax. Black ; the 

 mandibles, the first and the greater part of the second abdo- 

 minal segments, and the anterior tarsi dark red, sparsely 



