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4. Icaria ferruginea, Sauss. Mon. Guepes Soc. p. 38. 17. 

 Hab. Ceram; Celebes; India. 



5. Icaria morosa. I. nigra, opaca, pube sericea vestita; alis subhya- 

 linis ; abdominis segmentis primo at secundo raargine flavo fasciatis. 



Female. Length 4^ lines. Black, opake, and thinly covered with a 

 silky cinereous pile ; the base of the mandibles, a spot on each side of 

 the clypeus and another on each side of the face, touching the eyes, 

 yellow ; the scape ferruginous at the outer side, and the flagellum ob- 

 scurely testaceous beneath towards its apex ; the head closely punc- 

 tured. Thorax strongly and closely punctured; wings subhyaline, 

 the nervures dark fuscous. Abdomen : the apical margins of the first 

 and second segments bordei-ed with yellow ; the margin of the first 

 strongly constricted ; finely and closely punctured. 



Hab. Waigiou. 



6. Icaria irritata. I. nigra; clypeo antice angulato; abdominis 

 segmentis flavo fasciatis. 



Female. Length 4]- lines. Black, punctured, and shining ; very thinly 

 covered with a fine cinereous pile, which is most dense on the cheeks 

 and abdomen ; a yellow spot at the base of the mandibles ; the flagel- 

 lum rufo-testaceous beneath towards the apex. The wings subhyaline, 

 the anterior margin of the superior pair narrowly fuscous. Abdomen : 

 the apical margin of the basal segment with a very narrow yellow 

 fascia, all the following segments with broad fasciae. 



Hab. Mysol. 



7- Icaria torrida. 7. capite thoraceque ferrugineis, abdomine fusco. 



Female. Length 4 lines. The head, thorax, legs, and petiole of the 

 abdomen ferruginous ; the clypeus produced into a shai-p angle at its 

 anterior margin ; the wings subhyaline, with a fuscous cloud in the 

 marginal cell. Abdomen : the second and following segments black ; 

 thinly covered with cinereous pile. 



Hab. Ceram. 



8. Icaria deceptor. /. ferruginea; thorace flavo maculato; abdo- 

 minis segmento secundo flavo marginato ; alis hj'alinis. 



Female. Length 5] lines. Ferruginous ; a pale testaceous yellow spot 

 in the middle of the clypeus, and a line of the same colour at the 

 inner margin of the eyes ; the scape yellow in front. The prothorax 

 with the anterior margin yellow; the tegulae, a spot beneath the 

 wings, a spot on the coxa3, a mark beneath the anterior and interme- 

 diate femora, the scutellum, postscutellum, and a broad stripe on 

 each side of the metathorax pale yellow ; the wings hyaline, the an- 

 terior margin of the superior pair narrowly fuscous, and also a fuscous 

 cloud in the marginal cell. The apical margins of the segments of 

 the abdomen bordered with yellow, interrupted on the fourth and 

 fifth segments. 



Hab. Mysol. 



