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and two on the face on each side of the clypeus touching the mar- 

 gin of the eyes, yellow ; an elongate yellow stripe behind the eyes ; 

 antennae, labrum and mandibles black. Thorax, the anterior 

 femora at their apex above, and all the tibiae at their base yellow ; 

 the postenor tibiae have a short spine near their base exteriorly ; 

 the posterior tibiae and all the tarsi densely covered with cine- 

 reous pubescence, the claws and apical joints of the tarsi ferru- 

 ginous ; the metathorax on each side covered with white pubes- 

 cence ; abdomen, the margins of the three basal segments 

 depressed, smooth and shining, the three apical ones rugose. 



Hab. Brazil. (Coll. Fred. Smith.) 



Genus 19. ALLODAPE. 



Allodape, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 531. 



Maxillary palpi six-jointed, the basal joint thickest, nearly as 

 long as the two following, the three apical ones minute, the labial 

 palpi four-jointed, the two basal ones elongate, the apical ones 

 minute ; the superior wings having one marginal and two sub- 

 marginal cells. 



In the ' Encyclopedic Methodique,* and also in St. Fargeau's 

 ' Hymenoptera,' the number of joints in the maxillary palpi is 

 incorrectly given ; it has therefore been necessary to give the 

 above short correction. 



1. Allodape rufogastra. B.M. 



Allodape rufogastra, St. Farg. Ency. Meih. x. 119. 1 ; Hy7n. ii. 

 531. 1?. 



Blanch. Hist. Nat. Ins. iii. 412. 



The male closely resembles the female, but has the clypeus 

 entirely yellow ; the abdomen is black at its extreme base as 

 well as the four apical segments, except the base of the fourth ; 

 the apical segment is obtuse and fringed with curled fulvous 

 pubescence. 



Hab. South Africa. (Coll. the Rev. D. F. Morgan.) 



2. Allodape pictifrons. B.M. 



Female. Length 3^ lines. — Black, a narrow yellow stripe 

 along the inner margins of the eyes, and another down the middle 

 of the clypeus, which is produced and rounded at its anterior 

 margin ; the face on each side above the clypeus depressed, as in 

 the genus Cerutina, the antennae inserted in the depressions, 

 between which is a raised carina running from the clypeus to the 



