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orange-yellow spot on shoulder; tcgula with an oblique similar spot on 

 shoulder, inner edge with a narrow pale yellow straight edge, long 

 apical tuft mixed with yellow; meso- and metathorax mixed with long 

 orange hairs. Legs bright yellow orange, posterior tibia light bronze, 

 irrorated with purple. Abdomen purple brown, rather dark, anterior 

 edge of fourth tergite with a broad orange-yellow band, fifth tergite 

 strongly mixed with orange except anteriorly, sixth so mixed only at 

 the sides and with a narrow posterior edge, seventh segment strongly 

 elongate, bright orange yellow at the sides, anal tuft yellow. 



Forewing pale yellow hyaline; costa with a dark fuscous-brown 

 streak from base to apex, limited by cell and vein 9; an attenuated 

 bright orange-yellow streak from base along costal edge, not reaching 

 middle of wing; all markings below the dark costal streak formed by 

 purplish brown, tinged brown-crimson suffusion; a rather narrow 

 streak along dorsum, gradually dilated towards base; a narrow line 

 along lower edge of cell and vein 2 ; discoidal inwards oblique, with a 

 thick deep purple suffused streak; all veins beyond cell streaked with 

 deep purple, streaks thicker than along vein 2; cell filled with purple- 

 brown-crimson suffusion becoming thinner or obliterate towards lower 

 edge anteriorly; the same but thin suffusion below lower angle of cell 

 and irregularly here and there above dorsum; the same suffusion but 

 densely and regularly spread all over wing beyond cell, between veins 

 2 and 9, except between basal half of veins 2-5, where the wing is 

 semitransparent. Cilia concolorous. 



Hindwing hyaline pale yellow, a trifle paler than forewing; edge 

 throughout with a narrow band of purple irroration; veins narrowly 

 dark purple, except discoidal which is transparent yellow, not scaled, 

 little oblique, almost vertical. 



Female genitalia: Ovipositor long, top scelerotized. Genital seg- 

 ment elongate, somewhat narrowed posteriorly. Lamella anteva- 

 ginalis with basal rods fused entirely together mesially and producing 

 an elongate sclerite, with rounded top projecting beyond posterior 

 margin of segment. Bursa copulatrix simple. 



Material examined: Luzon, Los Banos (Baker), 19, holotype, genit. 

 slide 5301 (USNM). 



Glossosphecia micans, new species 



Figures 329-330, 708-709 



Female, 30 mm. Head with vertex dark fuscous mixed with pale 

 yellow laterally, face wliite with faint prismatic reflections, a big dark 

 grey central spot. Antenna thickened and flattened beyond base 

 (top missing) brown purple, jjaler toward base. Orbits pale yellow. 

 Palpus rather light yellow, upper side with a slender fuscous streak, 

 median segment at base above with a quadrate black spot. Thorax 



