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abdomen yellow ; the back of the femoru, apex of the tibiic, and the tarsi 

 of the posterior legs reddish-brown, tlie base narrowly, and a transversely 

 elongate diamond-shaped spot on the 2nd abdominal segment above, 

 with the bases of the 3-6 segment and the whole of the apical segment 

 black ; the apical three joints of the flagellum of the antennae reddish- 

 yellow j wings hyaline, tegnlojyellov;, nervures testaceous, the ciypeus 

 covered with silvery pile, very bright and glistening in certain lights. 

 $. Length 10; exp. 18 mm. 

 Hab. Deesa. 



12. Odynenis nursei, sp. nov., pi. a, f. 9. 

 9 . Head .-and front above the base of the antenure veiy finely and 

 closely punctured ; olypeus nearly circular, very convex, smooth and 

 dull, with only a few scattered fine puncture?, the anterior margin bent 

 downwards and produced slightly into two tee'h ; thorax oval alx)ve, 

 on the sides somewhat finely and distantly, and on the postscutellum 

 and median segment above very densely and coarsely punctured ; disc 

 of mesonotum with two parallel longitudinally impressed lines ; median 

 segment posteriorly truncate, the face of the truncation smooth ; legs 

 smooth, shining, slightly pruinose in certain lighis ; abdomen highly 

 polished and shining, the basal segment and base of the 2nd coarsely 

 and cribrately punctured and rugose, the former narrowed at base, 

 anteriorly abruptly truncate, with a transversely impressed fun-ow along 

 the margin of the truncation, remaining abdominal segments lightly 

 punctured ; the 1st ventral segment coarsely reticulate, the margin 

 smooth ; base of the 2nd ventral segment depressed, bearing coarse 

 longitudinal strife with deep fuiTows between, the remainder of this and 

 the following ventral segments highly polished, smootli, and shining. 

 Black, a crescentic spot at the base of the ciypeus, a spot on each side on 

 the pronotum, a spot beneath the base of the wings, the apical margins 

 of the 1st narrowly, of the 2nd broadly alx)ve and on the sides, and of 

 the ord and 4th abdominal segments nan-owly in the middle above, 

 yellow, legs blaok ; the apex of the femora, the tibiae and tarsi testaceous- 

 brown, the tibias of the intermediate and posterior legs with a black 

 stain on the underside ; wings light fusco-hyaline, nervures and tegulse 

 reddish-brown. 



9 . Lenfjth ] 2 ; e.qy. ZO mm. 

 Hub. Suula. 



