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shining; the antennae and legs pale rufo-testaceous. Thorax pale 

 ferruginous, with the metathorax flavo-testaceous. Abdomen smooth, 

 shining black. 

 Hab. Makassar. 



Tribe FOSSORES, Latr. 

 Fam. SCOLIAD^. 

 Geu. TiPHiA, Fair. 



1. TiPHiA CARBONARiA. T. nitida, atra, punctata; linea intermedia 

 elevata metathoracis lineam transversam non attingente. 



Female. Length 5 lines. Shining jet-black ; the head, pro- and meso- 

 thorax strongly punctured ; the clypeus truncated in the middle of its 

 anterior margin ; the antennse obscurely fuscous beneath. The meta- 

 thorax smooth and shining, truncate posteriorly ; the margin of the 

 truncation carinated, with three elevated longitudinal lines on its su- 

 perior surface, the two lateral ones extending from the base to the 

 verge of the truncation, the intermediate one extending only halfway 

 from the base ; the wings subhyaline, with a fuscous cloud below the 

 stigma ; the latter as well as the stigma, black ; the anterior tibiae 

 ferruginous beneath. Abdomen : the two basal segments with fine 

 scattered punctures ; the followiug segments, each in succession more 

 closely and strongly punctured, the apical one coarsely so. 



Hab. Makassar. 



Fam. POMPILID^. 

 Gen. PoMPiLUs, Fahr. 



1. PoMPiLUS coNFORMis. P. niger, pube cincrea vcstitus ; aUs hya- 

 linis unifasciatis. 



Female. Length 7i lines. Black, with a silky, silvery, changeable pile, 

 which is most dense on the face, coxae, and sides of the metathorax ; 

 the anterior margin of the clypeus rounded, slightly elevated, and very 

 smooth and shining; the mandibles pilose at the base, smooth and 

 polished at their apex, which is ferruginous, with their tips black. 

 The posterior margin of the prothorax curved ; the metathorax opake, 

 with shining silvery pile at the sides ; the wings hyaline, with a fuscous 

 band crossing them at the apex of the stigma, nearly as wide as the 

 marginal cell ; a slight fuscous stain at the base of the second dis- 

 coidal-cell. Abdomen subpetiolate ; the apical margins of the seg- 

 ments shining, not pilose. 



Hab. Makassar. 



2. PoMPiLUS LiMBATUS. P. obscure caeruleo-nigcr ; prothoracis mar- 

 gine postica flava ; alis fuscis basi subhyalinis. 



Male. Length 7 lines. Obscure blue-black, the abdomen brightest ; 



