538 Major C. G. Nurse on neio 



of eyes, the front between the bases of antennae raised, with 

 a sh'ght median groove ; a median lono:itudinal line on meso- 

 notum. Black ; a triangular mark along the iimer orbits, 

 reaching as high as the base of antennfe, a spot on each 

 lateral angle of the pronotum, the tegulpe anteriorly, a spot 

 below the base of wings, a spot at the base of the anterior and 

 intermediate tibiaj, and about two fifths of the posterior tibiaj 

 at base, pale yellow or yellowish white; flagellum of antennae 

 sometimes rufescent ; the abdomen (especially towards its 

 apex) and the tibias and tarsi are covered with short, stiff, 

 greyish hairs. Wings hyaline, nervures black. 



Long. 5'5 raillim. 



IJab. Kashmir, 5000-6000 feet ; two specimens. 



This species comes next to P. Feai, but differs from it in 

 the clypeus being black, not yellow. The abdomen is also 

 impunctatCj whereas in P. Feai it is shallowly punctured. 



Sphecodes sufor, sp. n. 



? . Head closely and finely punctured, the punctures 

 being slightly wider apart on the clypeus and behind the 

 ocelli than on the vertex and front; mesonotum and scu- 

 tcUum sparsely punctured, postscutellum finely longitudinally 

 rugose, median segment coarsely longitudinally rugose ; abdo- 

 men impunctate or nearly so ; clypeus transverse anteriorly, 

 with a median vertical groove on the apical half and a trans- 

 verse groove across the centre ; thorax truncate anteriorly, 

 the " shonlders " angled, almost dentate; median segment 

 •with a well-marked longitudinal carina at apex ; first abdo- 

 minal segment not or scarcely constricted ; the whole insect 

 (except the postscutellum, which is opaque) conspicuously 

 shining. Head and thorax black ; abdomen red, apical 

 segment blackish ; legs black (except the last four or five 

 joints of the tarsi, which are red) ; a little sparse greyish 

 pubescence, thickest on the front ; tibite and tarsi with 

 thicker pubescence, which is dark or black if^h on the outside, 

 paler inside. AVings fuscous, nervures and tegula3 black. 



Long. 10-12 millim. 



Ilab. Kashmir, 5000-6000 feet; very common. 



Nearest to S. ajn'cafus, from which it can be distinguished 

 by the thorax being sparsely and not closely punctured. 



S/jhecodes haniwian, sp. n. 



$ . Head finely and closely, mesonotum and scutelluni 

 sparsely punctured ; base of median segment longitudinally 

 rugose, its sides very finely striate, the striations curved, apex 



