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and receiving the second recurrent nervure either about the middle or 

 very near its base. Leijs stout and more or less spinose, the anterior 

 tarsi ciliated exteriorly. Abdomen oblong-ovate, the margins of the 

 segments slightly depressed. 



^. — Body Jindy •punctured. 



1. Philantlius gloriosus, n. sp. 



Large, black; face, tegulse, two transverse spots on basal segment of abdo- 

 men, and broad continuous bands on remaining segments, yellow ; cheeks, collar, 

 most of legs, basal segment of abdomen, and bands on venter, dull ferruginous 

 or honey-yellow ; wings dull honey-yellow. 



Ff.mah. — Black, shining, clothed with short, fine, fuscous and och- 

 raceous pubescence; head large, minutely punctured, clothed with yel- 

 lowish pubescence, long on the cheeks; sides of the face, a large sub- 

 ((uadrate spot between the antennte, clypeus and mandibles except tips, 

 yellow; a large, dull ferruginous spot occupies most of the cheek, ex- 

 tending upon the occiput where the two are almost confluent; antennae 

 black or piceous, the scape, except a black line above, and the two 

 basal joints of the flagellum beneath, yellow. Thorax shining above, 

 closely and more strongly punctured than the head, the punctures more 

 sparse on the disk of the mesothorax, which has a very short pale fus- 

 cous pubescence and a rather deep, longitudinal depression in front; 

 pectus, pleura and metathorax densely clothed with a pale ochraceous 

 sericeous pubescence ; prothorax either entirely ferruginous above, or 

 with a yellowish-ferruginous line on its posterior margin; postscutellum 

 yellow, or ferruginous with a yellow spot on each side ; a spot on the 

 tubercles and a transverse spot immediately behind them and beneath 

 the superior wing, yellowish; metathorax closely punctured, with a 

 a broad, shallow depression on the disk ; tegula? yellow. Wings sub- 

 hyaline, tinged Avith dull honey-yellow, the apical margins narrowly 

 fuscous or fuliginous, with a slight violaceous reflection ; nervures 

 honey-yellow. Legs honey-yellow; the four anterior tibiae and tarsi 

 yellow, the posterior pair tinged with yellow. ^Alidomen elongate-ovate, 

 the basal segment strongly contracted and subglobose; finely, distinctly 

 and rather sparsely punctured, shining, with a short, sparse, yellowish 

 pubescence, more obvious on the basal segment, which is convex, ob- 

 scure ferruginous, with more or less black at base and apex, and with 

 a transverse yellow spot on each lateral middle; the second, third, 

 fourth and fifth segments with a broad, continuous yellow band at the 

 apex, that on the second covering the whole of the segment, except- 

 ing a large, elongate, black or ferruginous mark on the middle, and 

 proceeding from the base; the bands on the third, fourth and fiith seg- 



