358 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. VIII. 
ON NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN HYMENOPTERA FROM 
INDIA, BURMA, AND CEYLON. 
By Masor C. T. Bincuam, F.z.s. (Forest Department, Burma). 
The fossorial Hymenoptera belonging to the family of the Pompilide, 
Leach, are some of the most difficult of insects to classify and group 
into well-defined genera. One of the latest arrangements of them is 
that by Herr Kohl of Vienna as laid down in his paper “ Die Guttun- 
gen der Pompiliden” in Verh. der k. k. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 1884. 
Herr Kohl divides the Pompilide into 15 genera. Species belonging 
to the following occur in the Indian region; Macromeris, Pel., 
Pseudagenia, Kohl, Ceropales, nibs Salius, Fabr., sec. Kohl, and Pee 
pilus, Fabr., sec. Kohl, 
Saleus is further subdivided into 4, and Pompilus into 18 groups, 
or subgenera. Under the Salius groups are included in part species 
belonging to the genera Salius, Fabr.; Priocnemis, Schioedte ; Hemi- 
pepsis, Dahlbom ; Homonotus, Dahlbom ; Entypus, Dahlbom; Pallosoma, 
Pel.; and Mygnimia, Smith. And under the Pompilus groups, in part, 
species belonging to Pompilus, Fabr.; Aporus, Spin.; Episyron, 
Schioedte ; Anoplius, Pel.; Evagethes, Pel.; Salius, Dahlbom ; 
Homonotus, Dahlbom ; and Ferreola, Smith. 
I give a translation of Kohl’s description of the five genera meh= 
tioned above. 
“I. GEN. MACROMERIS (Tab. II, Fig. 1). 
“ Macromeris, Pel. Guer. Mag. Zool., pl. 29, 1831. 
“Type: Macromeris splendida, Pel. ; Ibid, pl. 29, 1831. 
A wide space between the lower rim of the orbits and the base of 
the mandibles. The mesosternum in front of the coxee of the inter- 
mediate legs, cone-shaped. Wings large, overlapping the abdomen, 
The radial* cell of the front wing rounded at the apex ; three cubital 
cells, the 2nd cubital cell trapezium-shaped, a little smaller than the 
* Throughout this paper I have adopted, with one exception, the English equivalents of the 
~ Latin terms used by Dahlbom (Hym. Eur,, I, plate) for the wing nervures and cells. The one 
exception is that for Dahlbom’s “1st and 2nd Venula-transverso discoidal”” I have used the 
terms “Ist and 2nd recurrent neryures ” as more familiar to English and American Hymenop- 
terists. 
I give (Pl. Il, Figs. 2 & 8) a diagram of the front and hind wing (Hymenoptera) with the 
hames of the cella and neryures according to Dahlbom. 
