Indian Aculeate ITymenoptera. 539 



of tlie segment finely nigose ; abdomen with very minute and 

 close punctures, the apices of the segments more or less 

 smooth ; clypeus transverse anteriorly, its sculpturing and 

 that of the front hidden by the pubescence ; pronotum trun- 

 cate anteriorly, its '• shoulders " sharply angled ; segments of 

 the abdomen not constricted. Black ; the abdomen red ; 

 mesonotum and scutellum shining; pubescence on the front, 

 sides of the thorax, postscutellum, legs, and apical abdominal 

 segments greyish. "Wings hyaline, nervures black, teguhie 

 bronzy testaceous. 



Long. 8-9 millim. 



IJab. Kashmir, 5000-6000 feet ; apparently not common. 



Allied to S. monfamis, but the thorax is sparsely and not 

 coarsely punctured and the abdomen is entirely red. 



Sphecodes ahuensis, sp. n. 



$ . Head and thorax closely and finely, abdomen very 

 minutely and closely punctured ; clypeus transverse ante- 

 riorly, its apex reaching well below the lower margin of 

 eyes ; a median impressed line on the basal half of the meso- 

 notum, enclosed space at base of median segment, which is 

 lunate in shape, somewhat finely rugose, the segment trun- 

 cate posteriorly ; abdominal segments not or scarcely con- 

 stricted. Black ; the abdomen (except the apical one or two 

 segments) and the apical two or three joints of the tarsi red; 

 head and thorax more or less covered with snow-white pubes- 

 cence, thickest on the clypeus and front, where it hides the 

 sculpturing, a little greyish pubescence on apical abdominal 

 segments ; legs covered with somewhat sparse greyish pubes- 

 cence, which becomes almost fulvous on the inside of the 

 posterior tarsi in some specimens. Wings subhyaline, ner- 

 vures black, tegulae testaceous. 



^ . Similar, the basal abdominal segment or the greater 

 part of it black ; the pubescence on the legs shorter, the 

 margins of the abdominal segments slightly constricted in 

 most specimens; the wings clear hyaline, the stigma and 

 most ot the nervures testaceous. 



Long. 7-11 millim. 



IJab. Mt. Abu; very common. 



Nearest to S. montanus, from which it differs in the head 

 and thorax being finely and not coarsely punctured and in 

 several other respects. 



Sphecodes tantalus^ sp. n. 

 $ . Head very finely and closely, mesonotum and scutellum 

 equally finely but more sparsely punctured, median segment 



