186 BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
This genus does not seem well represented here in Burma. The 
above are the only two species I have managed to find. 
Pelopeus bilineatus, Smith. 
Common; found all the year round. It very often comes into 
houses and builds its mud nest against the furniture, generally 
choosing the under side of a shelf of the dinner wagon, or theunder- 
side of the seat ofa chair, and sometimes the under side of a rafter 
or beam. Occasionally the nest is made with cells end-on to each 
other ; ordinarily however the cells lie parallel. One egg is deposited 
in each cell, the number of which latter varies from three to seven. 
Hach cell is stuffed to overflowing with spiders, which have been 
paralysed by being stung, but which are by no means dead, but 
keep alive and fresh for consumption by the larve. I have 
remarked that P. bilineatus seems to invariably keep to one pretty 
little green species of Hpetra, 
Pelopeus bengalensis, Dahlbom. 
As common as the last, and constructing similar nests, but storing 
them with a different species of spider. 
Chlorion lobatwm, Fabricius. 
Common. Varies in colour from a bronzy green to a dark metal- 
lic blue. I believe this species burrows into banks to construct its 
nest, and stores it with crickets. 
Sphex argentata, Dahlbom. 
Common, July to October. 
Sphew ferruginea, St. Fargeau. 
Rare ; procured in December in the Pegu Hills. 
Sphex vicina, St. Fargeau. 
Sphex flavo-vestita, Smith. 
These two species are by far the commonest of the Shegidé. 
April to November found all over the country. 
Ampulea hospes, Smith. 
This lovely species, first described from Borneo from collections 
made by Mr. A. R, Wallace, is not uncommon near Rangoon in 
the rains. In the Pegu Hills I got a specimen not one-third of the 
size of the ordinary ones, but exactly alike in colouring and in the 
second segment of the abdomen being suddenly’ produced on the 
under side. 
Larrada subtessellata, Smith, 
Common, May to October. 
Tachytes sinensis, Smith, 
