NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN SPECIES OF 209 



INDO-MALAYAN HYMENOPTERA. 



" Habitat in India Orientali. 



*' Statura S. cyanese. Antennse convolutse ferrngineas. Caput et 

 thorax obscure ferrugineo, pectore atro. Abdomen atrum ano sive 

 ultimo segmento ferrugineo. Alse flavse apice fuscse. 



" Variat segmentis abdominis aliquot basi flavis/' 



In the *' Systema Piezatorum/' p. 197, Fabricius quotes the short 

 diagnosis given in the "Entomologia Systematica" and places the insect 

 under his genus Pompihcs. 



At page xviii of the introduction to his " Hymenoptera Europea," 

 vol. i, Dahlbom gives a catalogue by Professor Behu of the Fabrician 

 collection of Hymenoptera in the«Museum at Kiel, and at page sx 

 notes that Pompilus flavus, Ydhvicm?,^=PrioGnemis flavus in his work. 

 At page 457 in the " Tabula Examinationis Synoptica Specierum 

 Pompilidarum," Priocnemis flavus is described briefly as follows : — 



" Divis. 1. Abdomen nigrum (ano rarissime fulvo)." 



" Suhdivis, 3. Alse lutee aut falvse, apice fumatag. Vena cubitalis a 

 marginse alse anticse apicali sat remota. 



*' A. Alffi luteo-hyalinse. Alse posticse cellula analis ante originem 

 venae cubitalis terminata. Caput, thorax antice, anus, pedes anten- 

 Dseque fulva, Clypens margine apicali subtruncatus. Corpus 

 mediocre... 6. Pmc«. /?a«Ms, Fabr. ^,9. 



India Oriental, Fabr. Egyptia, Hedenborg .''' 



Lepelletier St. Fargeau in his great work on the Hymenoptera^ vol. 

 iii, p. 430, describes Pompilus ^avus, thus : — 



" Antennae caputque luteo-testacea ; thorace concolori, inferius 

 tamen fusciori. Abdomen fuscum, segmentorum primi secundique basi 

 plus minusve testaceo-ferrugiuce. Anus .uteo-testaceus. Pedes fer- 

 rugineo-testacei: coxis, trochanteribus eb femorum quatuor posticorum 

 basi interaa cum tarsorum apice fuscis. Alse ferrugineo-tastacese, apice 

 nigro-violacio marginato: hsec ala um fascia a radealis apice ad alse 

 apicem extenditur, et eundo fit latior. Prothorax angustus, postice 

 subacute emarginatus. Metathorax mediocris, convexus, postice 



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