loO Albany Museum Record fi. 



Temples broad, rounded behind. Thorax smooth and shining ; 

 the furrows fine. Abdomen nearly twice the length of the thorax. 

 First segment of abdomen about one fourth longer than broad at 

 the apex, smooth, the apex irregularly striated ; 2nd, cird, and 4th 

 segments with their furrows closely longitudinally striated : the 

 area on 2nd segment is large, slightly longer than broad, rounded 

 broadly at the apex and irregularly striated ; it is surrounded by a 

 broad striated belt, the striae on the sides being oblique, and on 

 the outer side bounded by a smooth keel ; the lateral depression 

 is almost smooth at the base, it apex obliquely striated. Apical 

 abscissa of radius about equal in length to the basal two united ; 

 recurrent nervure received in the apex of the 1st cubital cellule. 

 Tarsi darker coloured than the rest of the legs ; pilose below : the 

 apices of the joints spinose. 



Ipliiaulax hasimacula, sp, nov. 



Black, the abdomen, except for a square mark in the centre of 

 its 1st segment, red ; wings uniformly dark fuscous, the base of 

 the stigma pale orange. Female. 



Length 8, terebra 3 mm. 



Antennae longer than the body ; the scape thickly covered 

 with stiff black hair, of equal width, about 3 times longer than 

 wide ; 2nd joint minute, narrowed, red ; the 3rd slightly longer 

 than the 4th. Face thickly covered with long black hair, smooth ; 

 clypeus, small ; oral opening large, almost transverse in the middle 

 above ; the malar space moderately large, as long as the 3rd 

 antennal joint ; it has a large rufous mark. Palpi black, covered 

 with long white hair. Thorax smooth and shining ; scutellum 

 roundly convex ; middle lobe of mesonotum slightly raised ; 

 parapsidal furrows indicated as fine lines. 3rd abscissa of radius 

 longer than the 1st and 2nd united ; the 1st abscissa of cubitus 

 straight, oblique. Abdomen broad, ovate, as long as the head and 

 thorax united ; 1st segment as long as its width at the apex, its 

 central part closely, finely longitudinally striated ; the depressed 

 sides irregularly obliquely striated ; 2nd to 5th segments closely 

 rugosely punctured and irregularly striated ; the 3 transverse 

 furrows are wide and deep, closely, strongly striated ; there is no 

 area on the base of 2nd segment ; its sides at the base are largely 

 depressed ; the sides of the 5th are roundly dilated at the apex. 



The eyes are not so large as usual ; temples wide, slightly 

 obliquely narrowed : occiput transverse ; fore tibiae as long as the 



