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Male. Body smooth, rather slender. Head as broad as the prothorax ; 

 vertex convex ; front oval. Mandibles large. Eyes elongate-elliptical, 

 prominent. Maxillary palpi rather stoui ; fifth joint about twice the length 

 of the fourth. Antennae lung, slender. Prolhor.ix saddle-shaped ; fore 

 border nearly straight ; sides and hind border slightly rounded. Sternum 

 not notched. Abdomen with an erect cone at the base; apical appendages 

 lanceolate. Legs stout, moderately long ; femora and tibise with several 

 spines and with a few large membranous spines beneath. 



This genus is nearly allied to Valna. The specimen described is 

 probably in the larva state. 



1. SaNABEIA rUSCESCENS. 



Mas. Teslacea ; caput vertice vittisque duabus latis fuscis ; ■prothorax 

 macula fusca trigona ; abdomen fuscum, basi testaceum, maculis 

 qualuor dorsalibus luieis maculisque duabus posticis testaceis ; pedes 

 fuscofasciati. 



Male. Testaceous. Head with the vertex and a broad stripe on each 

 side of the front brown ; fine pari shining. Eyes tawny. Prothorax with 

 a triangular brown spot in front. Abdomen brown, testaceous at the base, 

 with four luteous spots on the dorsum and with two testaceous spots on each 

 side near the tip. Femora with one inembraDous subapical spine. Hind 

 femora with two irregular and incomplete brown bands; four anterior 

 femora with brown tips ; hind tibiae with three brown bands and with four 

 membranous spines; four anterior tibiae brown at the base and at the tips 

 and with three membranous spines. Length of the body 6 lines. 



a. Birraah. From Mrs. Waring's collection. 



Genus 94. VELLEA. 



Fcem. Corpus robustum, glabrum. Caput cannula antica sulcata 

 postice dilatata ; frons subpunclata, Oculi prominuli, fere rotundi. Palpi 

 graciles ; articulus 3us 4o duplo longior ; 5ns 3o longior. Antennae longae, 

 gracillimae. Prothorax disco piano punclato postice laliore sulcis duobus 

 transversis lo angulato, carinis lateralibus bene determinatis, lateribus 

 margineque postico rulundatis. Mesosternum et melasternum incisa. Ovi- 

 ductus arcuatus, aequilaius. Pedes robusti, pubescentes, femoribus tibiisque 

 posticis longis, illorum spinis subfoliaceis. Alae anticae anguslae. Alae 

 poslicae longiores, amplae. 



Female. Body stout, shining, smooth. Head nearly as broad as the 

 prothorax ; a furrowed keel on the fore part of the vertex, dilated hindvvard, 

 separated by a transverse suture from the elongation of the front between 

 the antennae ; front erect, thinly and minutely punctured. Eyes prominent, 

 nearly round. Palpi slender; fourth joint about half the length of the 

 third, which is shorter than the fifth. Antennae long, very slender, stout 

 and approximate at the base. Prothorax with a punctured tlat disk which 

 widens hindward and has two transverse furrows, of which the fore one is 

 angular; lateral keels well defined ; fore border straight; sides and hind 

 border much rounded. Mesosternum and meiasteruum notched. Oviduct 

 curved, of equal depth along the whole length, rounded at the tip, shorter 



