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with brown. Abdomen conical, gradually tapering from the base to 

 the apex, smooth, shining, and delicately punctured. 



Female. Length 65 lines. Black, pubescent ; the mandibles in the mid- 

 dle and the scape of the antenna; at the apex ferruginous ; the vertex 

 with a deep depression on each side above, with a raised central carina 

 between them. The thorax above closely and deeply punctured ; the 

 metathorax smooth and obliquely truncate ; the legs obscurely ferru- 

 ginous, and thickly set with rigid hairs and spines of a pale testaceous 

 colour. Abdomen : the first segment thickly fringed with pale pu- 

 bescence at the base ; the second transversely striated, the following 

 segments smooth and shining; the first and second segments with a 

 small yellow spot on each side ; the third segment has a transverse 

 yellow stripe ; beneath, the segments are punctured, except the apical 

 one, which is longitudinally striated. 



Hab. Bouru. 



Gen. JElurus, Klug. 



1. JClurus comatus. ^. niger, capite thoraceque rude punctatis ; 

 abdomine laevi, nitido ; cajntis margine postico pube cinerea vestito ; 

 alis hyalinis. 



Male. Length 5 lines. Black ; the head and thorax closely and strongly 

 punctured, and thinly sprinkled with cinereous pubescence ; head 

 transverse, rather wider than the thorax, the posterior margin with a 

 long fringe of cinereous pubescence ; the face before the insertion of 

 the antennae with a silvery-white pubescence. The wings hyaline and 

 iridescent, the nervures fuscous. The abdomen petiolated, smooth 

 and shining, terminating in a trifid mucro. 



Hah. Waigiou. 



This is the first species that has been captured away from the Australian 

 continent, with the exception of two species from Brazil. 



Gen. ScLERODEEMA, Latr. 



\. Scleroderma modesta. S. capite, thorace pedibusque pallida 

 testaceis ; abdomine rufo-piceo cingulato. 



Female. Length 2 lines. The head, antennae, thorax, and legs pale 

 honey-yellow ; the tips of the mandibles ferruginous ; the sutures of 

 the thorax and the articulations of the legs with ferruginous stains ; 

 the exterior margin of the intermediate tibiae serrated. The basal 

 margins of the segments of the abdomen broadly rufo-piceous ; the 

 abdomen elongate and lanceolate. 



Hab. Mysol. 



Gen. ScoLiA, Fahr. 



Div. 1. Two suhmarginal cells and one recurrent nervure. 



1. Scolia insularis. Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. iv. 153, 4. 

 Hab. Ceram ; Bouru ; Key Island. 



