Indian Aculeate Ilymenoptera. 541 



segment truncate posteriorly, the enclosed space at base 

 (wliicli is not very clearly detined) somewhat coarsely longi- 

 tudinally rugose ; apical margin of first abdominal segment 

 very slightly constricted. Black; the mandibles (except 

 their tips), the antenna?, and the legs (except the apical half 

 of posterior tibiee) red ; mesonotum, scutellum, median seg- 

 ment, and abdomen shining ; head, sides of the thorax, and 

 postscutellura covered with thick snow-white pubescence, 

 which hides the sculpturing of the clypeus and front; legs 

 A\ ith white, apical abdominal segments with greyish pubes- 

 ceiice. Wings clear hyaline, nervures and stigmata testa- 

 ceous, tegulae very light testaceous. 



(J. Similar; the antennae darker red, the margins of the 

 abdominal segments more or less constricted and the apical 

 abdominal segment or segments blackish. 



Long. 7-8 millini. 



Hab. Deesa, Mt. Abu; not common. 



Having the legs red, this species would come next to 

 S. ruhripes, from which it would appear to be very distinct. 



As regards habits, the species of Sphecodes which occur in 

 Kashmir would seem to follow those of their European 

 allies. When I was in Kashmir in May and June I obtained 

 some fifty or sixty specimens of this genus, but there was 

 not a single male among them. I therefore presume that 

 the females hibernate in an impregnated condition and the 

 males do not emerge until the latter part of the summer, as 

 with the British species of the same genus. The females of 

 the species which occur at Deesa and iMouiit Abu, where there 

 is practically no winter, do not seem to hibernate, so far as I 

 liave been able to observe. 



Halictus magnijicus, sp, n. 



? . Clypeus and vertex finely but not very closely, the 

 front below the ocelli very finely and closely, mesonotum and 

 scutellum sparsely punctured, all the punctures shallow ; 

 abdomen impunctate; clypeus very convex and conspicuous, 

 its apex transverse ; mesonotum with a median impressed 

 line, median segment short, rounded posteriorly, the enclosed 

 space at base well defined by furrows, and with a median 

 longitudinal indentation or furrow ; this space is very finely 

 striate, the striations being longitudinal at base in the centre, 

 transverse at apex, and oblique at the sides, where they are 

 continued over the furrow on to the lateral portion of the 

 segment. Black, the apical two or three joints of the tai*si 

 tenuginous ; pubescence on the apex of the clypeus, tibite, 



