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Show 438 LT.-COL. C T. BINGHAM ON THE [Mar. 17, 360, 20 ; Cam. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. ser. 4, (18S9), 101,7. Pundaloya (Green coll.). 228. PELOPOSUS SPINOLJE, Lepeletier. Pelopceus spinolce, Lepel. Hym. iii. 307, 4; Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. B. M. iv. 231, 19 ; Walk. Tenn. Nat. Hist, Ceylon, ch. xii. 454 ; Motsch. Bull. Soc. Imp. d. Nat. Mosc 1863, 23; Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc. xi. (1867), 359, 3 ; Cam. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. ser. 4, ii. (1889), 102, 12. 229. PELOPOSUS VIOLACEUS (Fabricius). Sphex violaceus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 201, 12. Pepsis violaceus, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 211,16. Chalybion violaceum, Dahlb. Hym. Eur. i. 21, 1. Chalybion bengalensis, Dahlb. Hym. Eur. i. 433, 2. Pelopceus violaceus, Lepel. Hym. iii. 32, 21; Costa, Prosp. d. Imenott. Ital. fasc i. 21, 6. Pelopceus fiebilis, Lepel. Hym. iii. 321, 22. Pelopceus bengalensis, Smith, Cat, Hym. Ins. B.M. iv. 320, 15; id. Jour. Linn. Soc. xi. (1867), 360, 19; Smith and Home, Trans. Zool. Soc vii. (1870), pt. iii. 163, pi. xxi. f. 2, 2a; Cam. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. ser. 4, ii. (1889), 101, 2. Pundaloya (Green coll.). I think there is little doubt that Chalybion bengalensis of Dahlbom=£p7t<>a? violaceus, Fabricius. Typical specimens of P. violaceus and P. bengalensis may differ in the sculpture of the thorax and in the colour of the wings, but the insect is a variable one. Genus SPHEX, Linnaeus, pt. 230. SPHEX LOBATUS, Fabricius. Sphex lobatus, Fabr. Syst, Ent. 348 (1775); Kohl, Ann. des k. k. Naturhist. Hofmus. v. 177, 1. Sphex smaragdinus, Drury, Exot. Ins. iii. 57, pi. 42. f. 2. Sphex ccerulea, Christ (nee Drury), Naturg. Ins. 308, t. 30. f. 6. Sphex chrysis, Christ, Naturg. Ins. 310, t. 30. f. 7; Kohl, Termesz. Fiizetek, ix. 173 $ 8; Andre, Spec. Hym. iii. fasc. 27, 123 2 8; Cam. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. ser. 4, ii. (1889), 105, 1. Sphex lobata, Fabr. Ent. Syst, ii. 206, 30. Chlorion lobatum, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 217, 1; Blanch. Hist. Nat. Anim. Art. iii. 351; Lepel. *Hym. iii. 330; Dahlb. Hym. Eur. i. 24 & 435 ; Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. B. M. ii. 237, 1; id. Jour. Linn. Soc xi. (1867), 360, 1. Chlorion azureum, Blanch. Hist. Nat. Anim. Art. hi. 351, pi. vi. f. 6; Lepel. Hym. iii. 329. Pundaloya (Green coll.). |