14 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



* 



the above author to be synonymous with a species described by him under the name 

 M. tretraops, with the description of which it in no way agrees. 



Tribe FOSSORES, (Latr.) 

 Family SCO LI AD JE, (Leach). 



37. SCOLIA HAEMORRHOIDALIS. 



Scolia haemorrhoidalis, Fabr., Ent. Syst. ii, 230, Syst. Piez., 240. 

 Klug, Weber & Mohr, Beitr. i, 24. 



Spin., Ins. Ligur., i, 74. 



Latr., Gen. Crust, et Ins., iv, 105. 



Vand., Lind. Hym., Eur., 18. 



Brulle, Exped. Sc. de Moree, iii, 370. 



St. Farg., Hym., iii, 522. 

 Burm., Mon. Scolia, 18. 



Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins., Pt. iii, 110. 



Sauss. et Sich., Cat. des Espec. Scol., 50. 



Sab. France, Spain, Albania, Hungary, Russia, Siberia, Asia Minor, India. The 

 locality of Dr. Stoliczka's specimens has not been recorded. 



This insect belongs to the division of the genus in which the anterior wings have three 

 submarginal cells and one recurrent nervure, and is a " Triscolia" of Saussure. 



Family POMPILIDj. 

 38. POMPILUS ARROGANS. 



Femina. P. ater, abdominis basi rufo-ferruginea, alls anticisfuscis. 



Black ; the head subopaque and finely longitudinally rugulose ; the anterior margin of the 

 clypeus slightly rounded, the mandibles rufo-piceous at their apex. Thorax slightly shining 

 above, and having a thin grey sericeous pile ; the metathorax concave in the middle posteriorly ; 

 the anterior wings fuscous, palest at their base ; the posterior pair hyaline, with their apex 

 slightly clouded ; the second submarginal cell subquadrate, the third longer than the second 

 and slightly narrowed towards the marginal cell ; the tarsi thickly spinose, the tibiae with a 

 few scattered spines ; the tips of the claws of the tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen ; the three basal 

 segments ferruginous, the apical margin of the third and the following segments black. 

 Female, length 6 lines. 



Hab. Dras, Kargil, and Leh, in Ladak. Taken in August and September. 



39. POMPILUS ATBIPES. 

 Femina. P. niger ; abdomine ferrugineo, apice nigro ; alisfuscis ; antennis crassis. 



Black ; the head smooth and shining, very finely punctured ; the antenna much thicker in 

 the middle than is usual in the genus. Thorax finely pilose, shining and finely punctured 



