Hynienoptera OrientaUs. 477 



ceous, covered with a fulvous down. Abdomen shining ; 

 the petiole becoming gradually wider towards the apex, so 

 that it is there more than twice the width of the base. 

 Apical segment rugose, thickly covered with stiff hairs ; 

 the sides and lower surface with long pale soft hairs. 

 The second cubital cellule at the top more than twice 

 the length of the third ; at the bottom equal in length to it ; 

 the third at the top about one-third of the length of the 

 bottom ; third transverse cubital nervure with a gradual 

 curve to the top ; the first recurrent nervure is received 

 near the apex ; the second a little beyond the middle. 

 Legs pruinose ; the spines sparse ; the long joint of the 

 hind tibise short, not reaching to the middle of the metatarsus. 



Length, 15 mm. 



Hab. South-East Provinces. 



Planiceps and Aporus^ distinguished from Foinpzlus, 

 Sensu str., by having only two cubital cellules, are treated 

 by Kohl as sections of Pompilus. 



Planiceps orientalis, sp. nov, (PL III. f i). 



Black, shining, pruinose ; the wings fusco-violaceous, 

 with subhyaline clouds. Clypeus at apex, subarcuate, 

 short, the sides obliquely truncated. Clypeus and cheeks 

 to the antennse thickly covered with a pale silvery pubes- 

 cence ; the rest of the head, shining, impunctate, very 

 sparsely pilose. Ocelli in a curve, the hinder separated from 

 the eyes by a distinctly less distance than they are from 

 each other ; behind them is a longitudinal furrow. Occiput 

 transverse. Prothorax longer than the head, arcuate behind, 

 laterally slightly convex. Median segment short, the base 

 with a moderately rounded slope ; the apex oblique. On 

 either side towards the base is a deep semicrescentic 

 short furrow. Abdomen longer than the head and thorax 

 united, subsessile, acutely pointed ; the apical segment 



