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the centre; the metnpleune reticulated closely at the hase below, the apex more widely 

 and irregularly reticulated, the rest smooth. There are distinct parapsidal furrows; there 

 are no spines on the hind tibia-. 



Gen. D<ixylabris, RAD. 

 Dasylabris euphemia, sp. nov. 



Black, the upper part of the Ihorax to the top of the apical slope, dark red; the 

 apex of the 1st segment above and of the 2nd all round covered with white pubescence, 

 a semicircular spot of similar pubescence on the centre of the 44h, and the whole of the 

 apical is covered with, white hair, as are also thinly the apices of the ventral segments. 

 Thorax twice longer than wide, rounded at the base and apex; the basal half becomes 

 gradually widened; the apex of this part is widened; and from there it becomes gradually 

 and distinctly narrowed. Ventral keel straight, untoolhed. $. - - Length 7 mm. 



Mem low lands, November. 



Head, thorax and abdomen somewhat thickly covered with black hairs on the 

 back; the legs sparsely covered with white hairs, and still more sparsely with longer 

 black hair; the tibia? have no spines; the calcaria pale fulvous. Abdominal petiole 

 clearly longer than it is wide at the apex; it becomes gradually wider towards the apex; 

 the base laterally projects into stout, oblique teeth; it is flat and straight below. 



Dasylabris basihirtus, sp. nov. 



Entirely black; the head covered with depressed silvery pubescence, and, more 

 sparsely, with long black hairs, the thorax sparsely covered with short depressed silvery 

 pubescence, and, more thickly than the head, with black hairs; the basal half of mela- 

 pleura? thickly covered with depressed silvery pubescence; the apex of the abdominal 

 petiole from the top of the basal slope covered with silvery pile, the sloping basal part, 

 above and below, with long black hair; on the base of the 2nd segment, in the centre, 

 is a pyriform spot (the narrowed end at the base) of silvery pubescence, on its apex are 

 4 larger spots of similar pubescence, the central 2 round, the lateral larger and oval, 

 extending beyond the base and apex of the central; there is a small spot, longer than 

 wide, on the centre of the 4th, and a large wide, transverse one across the central part 

 of the 5th; the dorsal segments are somewhat thickly covered with black hairs, the 

 ventral are fringed with long white hair. Legs densely covered with depressed silvery 

 pile; the spurs and tarsal spines black. Thorax almost transverse at the base; with the 

 sides broadly rounded; its apex above bluntly rounded; there is a stout, bluntly rounded 

 tubercle on the sides above before the middle. $. 



Length 14 mm. 



M<')-H low lands, Ngare na nyuki, January. 



Head clearly narrower than the thorax, very transverse behind, margined above; 

 the temples shorter a little than the eyes. Antennal scape strongly punctured and cov- 

 ered with longish white hair; the flagellum with a microscopic pale down; its 2nd joint 



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