16 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



its apex obliquely truncate ; the coxae greatly enlarged ; wings dark blackish-brown, with a 

 purple gloss. Abdomen smooth and shining. Female, length 10 lines. 



Hab. Yangihissdr, Eastern Turkestan. Taken in April. 



The Pompilidce are found in all parts of the globe ; little short of five hundred species 

 belonging to the various genera of which the family is composed have been enumerated. 



Family SPHEGID^L. 

 43. AMMOPHILA SPINIPES. 

 Femina. A. nigra, alls fulvo-hyalinis, metathorace rugoso, abdomine antice rufo. 



Black ; the head wider than the thorax, shining and strongly punctured ; the mandibles 

 with a ferruginous spot in the middle, the palpi rufo-piceous. Thorax ; the pro and meso- 

 thorax shining and strongly punctured, as well as the scutellum ; the mesothorax with a deeply 

 impressed line in the middle anteriorly, extending to the middle of the disk ; the metathorax 

 opaque and rugulose ; wings fulvo-hyaline, the apical margins with a slight fuscous cloud ; 

 the nervures and stigma ferruginous ; the tegulse rufo-piceous ; the tibia3 and tarsi thickly 

 spinose, the claws of the tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen ; the first, second, third and base of the 

 fourth segment of the abdomen ferruginous ; the petiole not quite as long as the first 

 segment. Female, length 8 lines. 



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



This genus is one of universal distribution ; about eighty species are described ; some 

 twenty species are found in Europe, and about the same number are at present known from 

 Africa ; twelve are described from India ; North and South America both possess numerous 

 species, but only three or four have been brought from Australia. 



Family 

 44. LARRADA AURTJLENTA. 



Sphex aurulenla, Fabr., Ent. Syst., ii, 213, $ . 

 Pompilns aiirafus, Fabr., Ent. Syst. Supp., 250. 

 I/iris aurata, Fabr., Syst. Piez., 228. 



Dahlb., Hym. Europ., i, 135. 

 Tachytes opulenia, St. Farg., Hym., iii, 246. 

 Lyrops auratus, Guer., Icon. Keg. Anim., iii, 440. 

 Larrada aurulenia, Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins., pt. iv ; Sphegidse, Larridse and Crabronidte, p. 276. 



Hab. Yangihissar, in Eastern Turkestan; also Madras, Bombay (India); China; 

 Philippines ; Sumatra ; Borneo ; Java ; Celebes ; Bachian ; Bouru. 



This genus is widely distributed ; Europe has five species at present known ; others 

 are found in India, China, Borneo, in most of the islands of the Eastern Archipelago, New 

 Guinea and Australia ; species also occur in Africa ; others are found both in North and 

 South America. 



