354 C- '^- Bingham : Aculeate Hymenoptera. [Voi,. II, 



Pseudagenia mimica, form nov. 



9 . Black, smooth and shining, sparsely clothed with some- 

 what long, soft, white hairs, which are most dense on the sides of 

 the head behind the eyes and on the sides of the thorax and me- 

 dian segment ; pronotum anteriorly with a rich purple prismatic 

 sheen. Head and pronotum very sparsely and minutely punctured ; 

 mesonotum, scutellum and postscutellum very delicately aciculate: 

 median segment furrowed medially from base, very obsoletely, trans- 

 versely striate; abdomen smooth. Head broad, about twice as 

 broad as long and much broader than the thorax ; mandibles 

 broad and stout ; clypeus transversely oval, strongly convex, anterior 

 margin narrowly refiexed ; antennae short but slender, the second 

 joint of the flagellum half as long again as the third or fourth; 

 front convex, bearing a very narrow medial furrow from the ante- 

 rior ocellus to between the base of the antennse ; the ocelli very 

 close together, the space between them barely half that between the 

 lateral ocelli and the eyes ; vertex broad, transverse. Thorax com- 

 paratively short, the pronotum transverse anteriorly, angularly 

 arched posteriorly ; mesonotum, scutellum, and postscutellum con- 

 vex ; median segment rounded, with an oblique slope posteriorly ; 

 legs slender, smooth ; wings hyaline; nervures dark brown. Abdo- 

 men fusiform, about as long as the thorax and median segment, 

 the second to the fifth segments in certain lights obsoletely banded 

 along their posterior margins with silvery pile. 



& . Similar, smaller and more slender, the purple tint on the 

 pronotum and the obsolete transverse silvery bands on the abdo- 

 men absent. 



Length. — ? , 9 ; cf , 6 : exp. ? , i6 ; 0* , 13 mm. 



Hab. — Himalayas: Mussoorie, 7,000 ft. 



Its nearest ally is P. stulta, Bingh. It differs from that form 

 in the much shorter prothorax and median segment, the finely aci- 

 culate mesonotum, the colour of the legs, etc. 



Salius {Priocnemis) rothneyi, Cameron. 



Salius rothneyi, Cam., Mem, Manch. Lit. and Phil. Soc. (4), iv, 

 1891, pp. 452 and 453 ; Bingh., Faun. Brit. Ind. Hym., i, 1897, 

 p. 146. 



Hah. — Sikhim : Darjiling. 



Descends also to the plains, as it was originally taken at 

 Barrackpore. 



Pompilus hecate, Cameron. 



Pompilus hecate, Cam., Mem. Manch. Lit. and Phil. Soc. (4), iv, 

 1 891, pp. 458 and 462, pi. 3, fig. 8 ; Bingh., Faun. Brit. Ind. 

 Hym., i, 1897, P- I7i- 



Hah. — Nepal. 



This form also descends to the plains ; described originally 

 from Barrackpore. 



