348 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (August, 1906. 
SPHEGIDA,. 
SpHex nivosus (Smith). 
Bingham in Blanford’s Fauna of British India, Hymenoptera, In 
> p. 244. 
On aaa” the Hymenoptera which was received by the 
Indian Mus om the Seistan-Afghanistan Commission, 
I found a Sphegiid which looked interesting, being quite different 
to those which one is neering ed to ond in the ere furthe 
vague. Smith and Cameron give the same vague locality as 
Bingham. Rothney, during the many years he spent in the 
North-West Provinces (now the United Provinces), does not seem 
to have obtained even a single specimen. 
AMPULEX NOVARA, Sauss. 
Bingham in Blanford’s Fauna of British India, Hymenoptera, 1, 
p. 256. 
Along with Pompilus hecate, Cam., the Museum collector 
t 
obtained a single specimen of this species in Calcutta. There ® 
two (a d anda @) in the Dudgeon collection now in the Indian 
mber, 
Colonel Bees ¢ states that he had no specimens before h im 
when ef i a monograph on the Indian Hymenoptera ass 
Blanford’s 
The uly’ "Youalitise hitherto recorded are Darjiling and 
Hongkong. Among the unidentified specimens of Ampulex m the 
Indian Museum Collection, there is a series of specimens from 
Bangalore, which I have also identified as A, novare® 
ndging from the localities mentioned, this species appears to 
have a very wide range. 
OXYBELUS CANESCENS, Cam. 
poe See in Blanford’s —- 3 British India, Hymenoptera, \« 
single specimen of this little Sphegiid was obtained by 
A 
Messrs. Richardson and O’Sullivan of the Indian Museum, during 
a recent visit to Siliguri, N. Bengal, 
