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below, and a line on the tibia 1 black. Wings Hear hyaline, the nervures and stigma 

 black. $. ' ' Length 15 mm. 



Merit low lands, Ngare na nvuki, October. 



Eyes slightly converging above; the space between the antenna 1 and Hie centre of 

 the clypens bluntly keeled. Head, thorax and base of abdomen densely covered with 

 dark cinereous pubescence, the clypeus also wilh a silvery pile. Flagellum of antenna 3 

 reddish-brown below. Anterior tarsi moderately dilated, the metatarsus half the width 

 of the apex of the tibiae; it bears 6 spines, the basal short, the apical long and stout. 

 The cubitus at the apex of the 2nd cubital cellule is roundly curved. 



Bembex lineatifrons, sp. nor. 



Black, a thrice curved line immediately below the ocelli, a large triangular mark 

 above the antenna 1 , the narrowed end above, a mark on the inner orbits extending from 

 the ocelli to the antenna 1 and becoming gradually widened from the top to the bottom, 

 the face, clypeus, except for a black mark under each antenna?, widened and obliquely 

 truncated above, rounded below, the labrum, mandibles, the outer orbits - the line 

 narrow above, becoming gradually widened below the prothorax, except for a black 

 spot in the middle and a smaller one on either side, a line on the sides of the meso- 

 notum in front of the tegula? - - transverse on the inner, rounded on the outerside - 

 a continuous or interrupted line across its apex, the apex of the scutellums, a curved 

 line in the centre of metanotum, a line on the base of the mesopleura 1 on the hinder 

 side of the tubercles, curving round them and running down (he basal edge, a line 

 below them, narrow above, becoming gradually widened below and projecting towards 

 the base of the pleura 1 below, a narrow curved line down the base of the metapleura 1 , 

 and the abdomen, bright-sulphur-yellow, except for the following black marks: the basal 

 half of the 1st abdominal segment, the apex of the black irregular and slightly dilated 

 in the middle, a broad band on the apex, united to the centre of the basal band, broad 

 bands, dilated in the centre, on the apices of the 2nd, 3rd and -4th, a triangular mark 

 in the centre of the 5th, the basal part narrow and continued to the base of the seg- 

 ment, the whole of the lith, Iransverse marks on the sides of the 2nd to 5th; the whole 

 of the basal ventral segment, a large mark on Ihe 2nd, extending to the outer edges at 

 the base and becoming narrowed towards the apex, and smaller, more irregular marks 

 on the 3rd, -4th and 5th, and the 6th, except for 2 oblique lines in the centre. Legs 

 of a paler yellow colour than the body, the coxa 1 , trochanters and more or less of the 

 femora black. Antennal scape yellow, black above, flagellum brownish-red, black above. 

 . Length 15 IK mm. 



Ment low lands, Ngare na nyuki, January. A common species. 



Head, thorax and base of abdomen densely covered with cinereous pubescence. 

 The eyes converge a little above. Fore tarsi moderately dilated, the base of metatarsus 

 a little more than half the width of the apex of the tibia?, the metatarsus with fi spines. 

 Pygidium strongly, closely punctured, except at the apex. Front keeled. 



