NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN SPECIES OF 213 



INDO-MAYALAN BYMENOPTERA. 



superficial observation and want of minute accuracy often led to the 

 confusion of species which were not unfrequently generically distinct, 

 I can, however, affirm that the specimens sent from Burma belong 

 without doubt to the genus Friocnemis.'^ 



Of IJemipepsis (?) sycophanta, he says : — 



"This species was collected by Captain Comotto at Minhla. 

 The type is in my collection, and was sent to me from the 

 English possessions in India, having been probably collected in the 

 neighbourhood of Colombo in Ceylon. It is difficult to classify this 

 insect. First, it is as well to note that it cannot be considered a true 

 Hemipepsis, because the posterior tibise are not serrated nor even 

 strongly spinose, the elevated longitudinal folding or grooving (repie- 

 gatura) of the tibias which in true IJemipepsis has the edges deeply 

 indented in the manner of a saw is in this species, on the contrary, 

 hardly even lightly wavy, and almost continued in a perfectly straight 

 line. It cannot, however, be placed in the genus Pompilus (vera)^ 

 because it has not only the claws strongly bidentatoj but bears a trans- 

 verse impressed line or furrow on the 2nd ventral segment." 



Three other allied species may be noted here. Priocnemis gigas, 

 Tasohenberg, described in the Zeitschrifft fiir die Gesammten Natur- 

 wissenschaften, xxxiv, (1869), p. 40, 16, as follows : — 



*' 16. Pr. gigas : Niger^ alisj capite cum 'antennis, tliorace pro 

 partibus } pubescentia, pedihus anoque fidvis. Long. 42 Mill, $ .,. 

 Java. 



" It is unfortunate that the only specimen has the apex of the wing 

 much torn, and the pubescence on the body considerably abraded, for 

 which reason its real appearance cannot be ascertained. The head 

 and antennae are light reddish-yellow, the front of the face and the 

 forehead with thick decumbent orange-yellow pubescence. The 

 olypeus has its outer margin short, smoothly arched, inwardly 

 transverse, its anterior angle obtuse and well rounded, wide at its 

 arched base, which is at the same height as the base of the 

 antenna, which latter are placed in somewhat small depressions. The 

 posterior margin of the prothorax is very obtusely angled, emarginate, 

 also rather flatter than the rest, and where the pubescence has been 

 rubbed, red in colour. The mesO" and metathorax are black ^.covered 



