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dark red. Mesonotnin and scntellum closely and ilistinctl,y 

 punctured ; their pleurae more shining and only weakly punctured. 

 Metanotum opaque, coarsely alutaceous, the apical slope irregularly 

 transversely striated ; the metapleurae finely, closely and regularly 

 striated. Penultimate abdominal segment coarsely punctured, the 

 last smooth, bare, transverse at the apex. 



Tachysphex Penllyri., sp. nov. 



Black, the basal two segments of the abdomen red : the ajjical 

 half of clypeus and labrum yellow, tinged with testaceous : man- 

 dibles rufous, yellow at the base : the apex of femora, tibiae and 

 tarsi rufous ; wings lij^aline, the nervures and stigma testaceous. 

 Male. 



Length 9 mm. 



Grahamstov^ni. Dr. Penther. 



Front and face thickly covered with silvery pubescence ; they 

 are, with the vertex, opaque, closely, finely punctured. Vertex 

 furrowed in the middle above ; above the ocelli is a reversed 

 U-shaped furrow. Palpi rufo-lestaceous. Thorax opaque, covered 

 with white pul)escence ; the metanotum transversely, the meta- 

 pleura3 more closely and regularly longitudinally striated. Abdo- 

 minal segments banded with silvery pubescence ; pygidium 

 indistinctly, sparsely, finely punctured ; the apical half of epipy- 

 gidium coarsely punctured. Eyes at the top separated by almost 

 the length of the antennal scape. Tegulfe rufo-testaceous. 



CEROPALIDtE. 



Microphadtms., gen. nov. 



Cubitus in hind wings originating largely before the trans- 

 verse median nervure. Transverse median nervure received very 

 shortly behind the transverse basal, almost interstitial. Radial 

 cellule small, narrow, not reaching to the middle of the space 

 between the stigma and apex of the wings ; 2nd cubital cellule not 

 (pdte sijuare, slightly I'ut distinctly, narrowed in front, wider than 



