92 I1YMEN0PTERA FROM SARAWAK. 



Belongs to the group of P. multipictus Sm., and the 

 European P. 4 punctata*, Fab. Characteristic is the prominent, 

 raised, keeled post-scutellum. 



P. 4 punctatus, I may add, is found in Japan also. 



Pompilus parmenas, sp. nov. 



Niger, vertice, fronte, linea pronoti, scutello, post-scutello, 

 macula mesonoto, linea abdominis segmento 2', maculaque seg- 

 ment 7', flavis ; alis liavo-hyalinis, apice fusco-fumato. 5 



Long: 12 mm. 



Hab. Borneo (Shelford). 



Antenna. 1 black, the scape for the greater part yellow. Head 

 black, the face, front and the vertex, except behind, lemon- 

 yellow ; the ocellar region black ; smooth, shining, almost bare. 

 The eyes distinctly converge above, where they are separated 

 by slightly less than the length of the third antennal joint. The 

 apex of the clypeus is broadly rounded. Thorax black ; a broad 

 band on the centre of the pronotum behind, a large mark on the 

 apical half of the mesonotum, its sides straight, its base irregular ; 

 and it is broader than long ; the greater part of the scutellum (the 

 mark obliquely narrowed laterally at the base), the post-scutellum 

 and a line on the base of the second abdominal segment, lemon- 

 yellow. The median segment is thickly covered with greyish 

 hair ; wings yellowish -hyaline ; the apex is smoky, broader at the 

 top, where the cloud extends to the second transverse cubital 

 nervure : the second cubital cellule at the top is distinctly shorter 

 than the first ; the two transverse cubital nervures converging 

 there; the transverse basal nervure is interstitial. Legs black; 

 the tibia] and tarsi rufo-fulvous. The base of the second abdo- 

 minal segment is lined with orange-yellow ; the last segment 

 above is broadly pale yellow. 



lias the general colouration of P. caruuscutis here describ- 

 ed ; but is readily known from it by the flat post-scutellum and 

 by the interstitial transverse basal nervure. 



PstU'lajeiiia reticulata, sp. nov. 



Nigra, abdominis basi late f emoribusque posticis rufis : alis 

 fusco-violaceis, basi hyalinis 9 • 



