FROM THE NORTH-WEST PROVINCES OF INDIA. 187 
Fam. SPHEGID 2. 
1, AMMOPHILA FUSCIPENNIS. 
Male. Length 93 lines. Black, with red legs. 
Head with scattered black pubescence, punctured, but not closely so; a little silvery 
pubescence on each side of the clypeus and above it as high as the insertion of the 
antenne ; the clypeus emarginate, the angles of the emargination prominent; the scape 
of the antenne ferruginous. Thorax coarsely rugulose; the metathorax obliquely 
striated; wings fusco-hyaline, with a violet iridescence; the legs red, with the coxe 
and claw-joint of the tarsi black. Abdomen black, the basal portion of the petiole 
more or less ferruginous; the rest of the abdomen with a fine silky pile, observable in 
certain lights. 
Hab. Mainpuri, North-west Provinces of India. 
2. PELOP@US CURVATUS. 
Female. Length 6 to 7 lines. Black, variegated with yellow and ferruginous, the 
petiole black and curving upwards. 
Head—a spot on the clypeus and the scape of the antenne in front reddish yellow; 
the mandibles ferruginous near their apex. Thorax—a narrow line on the collar, the 
tegule, a transverse spot on the scutellum pointed at each end, and a spot at the 
insertion of the petiole on the metathorax yellow; the legs ferruginous, with the 
cox, trochanters, a line inside and outside of the femora, as well as the tips of the 
joints of the tarsi, black. The apical margin of the first segment of the abdomen 
with a broad reddish-yellow band; a narrow band of the same colour on the apical 
margins of the other segments; the abdomen curving downwards. ‘The thorax trans- 
versely rugose, the metathorax most coarsely so; the wings hyaline, with the nervures 
bright ferruginous. 
Hab. Mainpuri, North-west Provinces of India. 
The form of the abdomen of this insect is the same as that of Pelopeus deformis 
from North China. 
Fam. LARRIDZ. 
Genus PARAPISON. 
The characters of this genus are in all respects the same as those of the genus Pison, 
excepting the absence of the petiolated second submarginal cell; it can therefore only 
be regarded as a division of that genus. Shuckard, in his Monograph on these insects, 
proposed a divisional name (Pisonitus). The following are the characters of the genus 
and its divisions :— 
Gen. Pison. The eyes reniform; the anterior wings with three submarginal cells, the 
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