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NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN SPECIES OF INDO-MALAYAN 



HYMENOPTERA, WITH A KEY TO THE GENERA 



OF INDIAN FOMPILJDJE, AND A NOTE 



ON SPHEX FLAVA OF FABRICIUS, 



AND ALLIED SPECIES. 



Br Colonel C. T. Bingham, f.z.s.. Forest Department, BurmAc 



( With Plates I and II.) 



{Read before the Bombay Natural History Society, on 2nd April, 1895.) 



After most careful coaiparison I have been unable to identify -vvith 

 any known species any of the eleven hymonopterous insects below 

 described and contained in my collection, and I believe them to be 

 hitherto undescribed. 



Family APID^E, Leaeh. 



1.— ANTHOPHORA VEGETA, n. sp., PI. I, Fig. 1, ?. 



Habitat : Deli, Sumatra. 



Febiale : Length 12 m.m., expanse 22 m.m. 



Male j Unknown. 



Description. — 9 . Head, thorax, and abdomen black with fulvous 

 pubescence, dark on the thorax, paler on the outside of the tibise and 

 tarsi of the legs and on the abdomen^ Mandibles yellow, castaneous- 

 brown at the tips ; clypeus yellow with two large square black maculas 

 at the base ; antennae piceous, a short yellow streak on the scape in 

 front ; the front of the face, the vertex and the cheeks behind the eyes 

 black with fulvous pubescence, that on the cheeks inclining to hoary ; 

 ocelli black placed in a triangle on the vertex, between the e^'es and 

 the lateral ocelli on «ach side the top of the head is sunk and furrowed. 

 Thorax black and finely punctured, covered with a dark fulvous 

 pubescence, tufted and long on the metathorax ; wings yellowish 

 hyaline, the tegulge and nervures testaceous ; legs black, with pale 

 fulvous pubescence on the outside of the tibise and tarsi, the tibial 

 calcaria and claws black. Abdomen black, densely and finely punc- 

 tured, the posterior margins of the segments with broad bands of 

 golden fulvous pubescence ; below the abdomen, is black, the margin 

 of the segments narrowly testaceous. 



