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lower side, obliquely beat backwards towards the base of the wing, 

 while the upper two-thirds are roundly curved towards the apex. 

 The same character separates it from the closely-allied Khasia 

 species, 8. suhferuens Cam. 



Head fulvous, yellowish along the eye-orbits ; the ocellar region 

 and the middle of the front are black : this black mark extends 

 behind the ocelli to the end of the eyes, where it is roundly 

 narrowed ; it is roundly incised at the sides of the ocelli, below 

 which it is roundly and broadly dilated : the lower part is incised. 

 The eyes distinctly converge above ; the hinder ocelli are separated 

 from each other by about the same distance they are from the eyes. 

 The clypeus is broadly rounded at the apex ; the labrum is broadly 

 black in the middle, its apex fringed with bright fulvous hair. 

 Mandibles broadly black at their apices. Thorax black ; the 

 pro thorax (except the lower half of the pleura?), the sides of the 

 mesonotum, its centre largely from near the base to the apex, 

 the scutellum, and postscutellum, rufo-fulvous. The apical two- 

 thirds of the pronotum are furrowed in the centre ; this furrow is 

 widest at the base. AVings uniformly fuscous-violaceous ; the 

 stigma is pale fulvous in the middle ; the first cubital cellule is 

 about twice the length of the second ; the first and third transverse 

 cubital nervures are oblique and roundly curved, the second is 

 straight and oblique on the lower third, the rest roundly curved 

 towards the upper apex of the cellule : the first recurrent nervure 

 is received near the base of the apical fourth, the second near the 

 base of the apical third of the cellule. Legs coloured like the 

 thorax ; all the coxse and trochanters, the base of the four anterior 

 femora, and almost the basal half of the hinder pair black ; the 

 apical joint of all the tarsi black. Abdomen black, except the upper 

 part of the last segment, which is pale fulvous. 



Pompilus analis Fab. 



One example, without special locality, of this widely distributed 

 Eastern species. 



Sphegidi. 



Sphex lobatus Fab. 



Patalung, Biserat, Gunong Iuas (Perak), and Bukit Besar. 

 A common Indian species. 



Sphex umbrosus Christ. 

 Bukit Besar. 



Sphex aurulentus Fab. 



The form of this species agrees with the description of Sphex 

 flavo-vestita Sin., a species placed by Kohl, in his monograph of 

 the genus, among the unidentified species. According to some 

 specimens in the Cambridge Museum from North Borneo, it stores 

 its nests with young grasshoppers, and spins a cocoon, which is 



