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This is probably merely a variety of L. simillima, wanting the black 

 apex to the abdomen ; it very much resembles the L. anathema of 

 Europe. 



6. Larrada rufipes. L. nigra, mandibulis pedibusque rufis; alis 

 hyalinis, venis pallide testaceis ; abdomine sericeo-piloso. 



Female. Length 7 lines. Black ; the head smooth and shining ; the 

 clypeus, the cheeks, and face anteriorly, covered with silvery pile ; 

 the scape in front, the mandibles, and palpi ferruginous. Thorax : 

 the sides and beneath with a thin silvery-white pile ; the legs ferru- 

 ginous with the coxae black, the posterior pair red beneath; the 

 thorax closely punctured, the metathorax transversely striated ; wings 

 fulvo-hyaline, the nervures pale-testaceous. Abdomen shining, very 

 closely and delicately punctured; thinly covered with a fine white 

 silky pile, which is very bright on the margins of the segments, which 

 are slightly rufo-piceous. 



The male closely resembles the female, and is similarly sculptured and 

 coloured. 



Hab. Celebes. 



7. Larrada festinans. L. nigra; facie abdominisque marginibus 

 segmentorum argentato-pilosis. 



Female. Length 3 lines. Black ; the face and cheeks thinly covered 

 with silvery pile. Thorax : the disk very closely punctured, the 

 metathorax rugose; the sides and the legs with a fine glittering 

 sericeous pile, the wings subhyaline, their apical margins fuscous, the 

 nervures fuscous. Abdomen smooth and shining, covered with a thin 

 silky pile, the apical margins with bright silvery fasciae, only observable 

 in certain lights. 



The male closely resembles the female, but has the face more silvery. 



Hab. Celebes. 



Genus Moephota, Smith. 



I. MoRPHOTA FORMOSA. M. capite thoraceque nigris ; abdomine rufo, 

 apice nigro, pilis argentatis ornato. 



Female. Length 6 lines. Black, with the two basal segments of the 

 abdomen red ; covered with a brilliant changeable silvery pile, most 

 dense on the face, cheeks, sides of the metathorax, and on the apical 

 margins of the abdominal segments. The mandibles ferruginous, with 

 their apex piceous. The vertex smooth, and having three distinct 

 ocelli ; the head more produced behind the eyes than in Larrada. 

 Thorax : the prothorax subtuberculate at the sides ; wings subhyaline 

 and iridescent, the nervures fuscous, the tegulae pale testaceous 

 behind. The apical margin of the first segment of the abdomen rufo- 

 fuscous. 



Hab. Celebes. ' 



The insects belonging to the genus Morphota difi^er from those of 

 Larrada in having three distinct ocelli, the vertex without any depres- 

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