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Fam, SPHEGID^. 



1. Ammophila fuscipennis. 



Male, Length 9^ lines. Black, with red legs. 



Head with scattered black pubescence, punctured, but not closely so; a Httle silvery 

 pubescence on each side of the clypeus and above it as high as the insertion of the 

 antennae; the clypeus emarginate, the angles of the emargination prominent; the scape 

 of the antennae ferruginous. Thorax coarsely rugulose; the metathorax obliquely 

 striated; wings fusco-hyaline, with a violet iridescence; the legs red, with the coxee 

 and claw-joint of the tarsi black. Abdomen black, the basal portion of the petiole 

 more or less ferruginous; the rest of the abdomen with a fine silky pile, observable in 

 certain lights. 



Hah. Mainpuri, North-west Provinces of India. 



2. Pelopceus curvatus. 



Female. Length 6 to 7 lines. Black, variegated with yellow and ferruginous, the 

 petiole black and curving upwards. 



Head — a spot on the clypeus and the scape of the antennse in front reddish yellow ; 

 the mandibles ferruginous near their apex. Thorax — a narrow line on the coUar, the 

 tegulae, a transverse spot on the scutellum pointed at each end, and a spot at the 

 insertion of the petiole on the metathorax yellow; the legs ferruginous, with the 

 C0X8B, trochanters, a line inside and outside of the femora, as well as the tips of the 

 joints of the tarsi, black. The apical margin of the first segment of the abdomen 

 with a broad reddish-yellow band; a narrow band of the same colour on the apical 

 margins of the other segments; the abdomen curving downwards. The thorax trans- 

 versely rugose, the metathorax most coarsely so ; the wings hyaline, with the nervures 

 bright ferruginous. 



Hob. Mainpuri, North-west Provinces of India. 



The form of the abdomen of this insect is the same as that of Pelopceus deformis 

 from North China, 



^ Fam. LARRID^, 



Genus Parapison. 



The characters of this genus are in all respects the same as those of the genus Pison^ 

 excepting the absence of the petiolated second submarginal cell ; it can therefore only 

 be regarded as a division of that genus. Shuckard, in his Monograph on these insects, 

 proposed a divisional name (Pisonitus). The following are the characters of the genus 

 and its divisions : — 



Gen. Pison. The eyes reniform ; the anterior wings with three submarginal cells, the 



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