16 MR. smith's catalogue of htmenopterous insects 



Fam. LAEEID^. 

 Genus Larra, Fdbr. 



1. Larra prismatica. Smith, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 103. 

 Hah. Malacca, Celebes. 



Genus Larrada, Smith. 



1. Larrada aurulenta, Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. pt. iv. 276. 6. 

 Sphex aurulenta, Fabr. Mant. i. 274. 10. 



Hab. India, Java, Sumatra, Celebes, Philippine Islands, China, Cape 

 of Good Hope, Gambia. 



2. Larrada exilipes. Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. pt. iv. p. 278. 



3. Larrada ^edilis. L. nigra; facie argenteo-pilosa, alis sub- 

 hyalinis, articulis apicalibus tarsorum rufo-testaceis, abdomine laevi 

 et nitido. 



Female. Length 5^- lines. Black; head and thorax subopake, the 

 abdomen shining; the face densely covered with silvery pile, the 

 cheeks, sides of the thorax and abdomen thinly so ; the tips of the 

 mandibles and apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous, the latter ob- 

 scurely so. The metathorax transversely and rather finely rugose, 

 the truncation more strongly striated ; the scutellum shining ; the 

 wings subhyaline, the nervures ferruginous ; the tibiae with scattered 

 spines, the tarsi spinose. 



4. Larrada aurifrons. L. nigra; facie mesothoracis metatho- 

 racisque lateribus aurato pubescentibus, abdominis marginibus seg- 

 mentorum triura basalium argentato piloso fasciatis ; alis fuscis. 



Male. Length 8 lines. Black ; the face and outer orbits of the eyes 

 clothed with golden pile ; the lateral margins of the mesothorax and 

 the metathorax thinly clothed with golden pile ; wings dark fuscous 

 with a violet iridescence; the three basal segments of the abdomen 

 with fasciae of silvery pile. 



Hab. Celebes. 



5. Larrada personata. L. capite thoraceque nigris, abdomine 

 ferrugineo. 



Female. Length 8^ lines. Head, thorax, and legs black ; the two 

 former closely punctured and thinly covered with short cinereous 

 pubescence ; the metathorax with the punctures running into trans- 

 verse striae in the middle ; the sides of the thorax and the legs with a 

 fine silky silvery-white pile ; the tibiae and tarsi strongly spinose ; 

 wings fusco-hyaline ; abdomen entirely red, smooth and shining. 



The male is smaller, and has the four apical segments of the abdomen 

 black, the face, cheeks, and apical margins of the segments of the 

 abdomen with silvery pile. 



Hab. Celebes. 



