522 Major C. G. Nurse on new 



its longer and more slender petiole, and by all the femora 

 being red. 



Stizus conscriptus, sp. n. 



? . Somewhat slenderly built ; head with a few shallow 

 punctures; thorax strongly and rugosely punctured ; abdomen 

 shining, finely aciculate ; clypeus very convex, almost rect- 

 angular, emarginate anteriorly, the front above it concave, 

 with a carina between bases of antennae ; eyes convergent 

 below, the distance separating them there being about half 

 the distance between them at vertex ; median seguient 

 roundly truncate posteriorly ; spines of anterior tarsi very 

 long. Black; the mandibles, except their tips, the labrum, 

 clypeus, basal half of the antennae, leg.^, and abdomen more 

 or less red ; the amount of red in different specimens varies 

 a good deal, and sometimes it is almost entirely confined to 

 the abdomen ; a little silvery pile on clypeus and front, and 

 some sparse greyish pubescence on median segment ; wings 

 fuscous, the posterior margin of hind wing hyaline, neivures 

 black, tegulse red. 



(^ . Similar, the eyes less convergent below ; the spines of 

 anterior tarsi short. 



Long. 12-16 milllra. 



Hah. Deesa; fairly common. 



Next to S. vespiformis, from which it differs in size, and 

 in having the thorax strongly punctured. 



Sti::us coloratus, sp. n. 



? . Stoutly built ; head finely, but not very closely, 

 thorax minutely and closely punctured, the punctures on 

 both very shallow ; sides and apex of median segment finely 

 rugose, abdomen finely aciculate ; head not so wide as thorax, 

 clypeus slightly emarginate anteriorly ; labrum, clypeus, and 

 the middle portion of the front above the latter, as far as 

 the base of antennpe, distinctly convex ; the sides of the front 

 from the posterior angles of the clypeus to the base of antennae 

 concave; median segment short, concavo-truncate posteriorly, 

 the sides rounded. Mandibles light red at base, black at 

 apex ; labrum, clypeus, and front yellow, shading off into 

 light red on the cheeks and vertex ; two macula? behind the 

 antennffi, the region of the ocelli, and the posterior portion of 

 the head below the vertex, black ; thorax black, the pronotum, 

 sides of the mesonotum, scutellum, and a spot on the meso- 

 pleurie dark red ; second and third abdominal segments bright 

 yellow, the remaining segments black ; the margins of first to 



