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3. Meria Klugii. B.M. 



Meria Klugii, Westw. Proc. Zool. Soc. (1835) p. 53. 1. 

 Guer. Rev. Zool. (1840) p. 365. 3. 



Hab. Sierra Leone ; South Africa. (Coll. Dr. A. Smith.) 



4. Meria abdominalis. 



Meria abdominalis, Guer. Rev. Zool. (1840) p. 365. 5. 

 Hab. Cape of Good Hope. 



5. Meria thoracica. 



Meria thoracica, Guer. Rev. Zool. (1840) p. 365. 6. 

 Hab. Arabia. 



6. Meria limata. B.M. 



Female. Length 3^ lines. — Head and thorax black and shining, 

 the clypeus, mandibles, and organs of the mouth ferruginous, the 

 flagellum and tip of the scape rufo-piceous ; head subrotundate, 

 wider than the thorax, impunctate. The prothorax having a few 

 scattered punctures, the metathorax obhque, highly polished and 

 impunctate ; wings subhy aline, nervures ferruginous, stigma fus- 

 cous ; legs rufo-piceous, their articulations and the tarsi ferru- 

 ginous. Abdomen entirely bright ferruginous, the second and 

 third segments having at their extreme lateral margins an oblique 

 narrow elongate-ovate white spot. 



Hab. Interior of South Africa. (Presentedby the Earl of Derby.) 



Very closely resembling M. tripunctata, but the head is of a 

 different form, the metathorax impunctate, and the abdomen 

 entirely red. 



Genus 9. TIPHIA. 



Tiphia, pt., Fabr.Ent. Syst. ii. 223 (1793). 



Bethylus, pt., Panz. Krit. Revis. Faun. Germ. ii. 134 (1805-6). 



1. Tiphia femorata. B.M. 



Tiphia femorata, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 353. 1 $ . 

 Rossi, Faun. Etrus. ii. &T . 828. 

 Panz. Faun. Germ. p. 53. 3. 

 Latr. Hist. Nat. xiii. 267. 

 Jurine, Hym. p. 149. t. 9. f. 11. 

 Spin. Ins. Lig. i. 81. 1. 

 St. Farg. Sf Serv. Ency. Meth. x. 655. 



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