HYMENOPTERA. 



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8. Allodape mucronata. 



Female. Length 6 lines.— Black, the head shining, strongly 

 punctured ; a narrow short yellow line along the inner margin of 

 the eyes; on the lower part of the face parallel with the sides 

 of the clypeus is a raised carina which reaches the base of the 

 mandibles ; the clyi)eus somewhat ])roduced, covered as well as 

 the labrura with coarse punctures ; on each side of the stemmata 

 on the vertex are some deep shining depressions, and a narrow 

 yellow stripe along the hinder margins of the eyes. Thorax, the 

 disk very smooth and shining, the prothorax coarsely punctured; 

 the sides of the thorax have a thin pale fulvous pubescence, the 

 tubercles having a thick fringe of the same behind; the posterior 

 tibige and all the tarsi densely covered with pale fulvous pubes- 

 cence, the legs being dark rufo-testaceous, the tegulse are of the 

 same colour, the wings subhyaUne, the metathorax rounded and 

 delicately and closely punctured. Abdomen shining, strongly 

 punctm-ed, of a dark rufo-testaceous colour above, beneath much 

 paler and varied with dark stains, very smooth aiid shining, the 

 apical portion of the segments punctured ; above is a short, thin 

 griseous pubescence, the margins of the segments being pale tes- 

 taceous ; the apical segment terminating in a sharp mucro, on 

 each side of which the margin is angulated ; the abdomen is 

 recurved and somewhat concave towards the apex. 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope. (Coll. Fred. Smith.) 



9. Allodape picta. B.M. 

 Male. Length 2^ lines.— Black, antennae pale fulvous beneath, 



fuscous above, the apical joint dilated and compressed; the 

 clypeus and the face on each side yellow, a narrow yellow line 

 along the inner margin of the eyes ; the mandibles and labrum 

 of a testaceous-yellow. Thorax impunctate, the metathorax 

 rounded behind; the tegulse testaceous, wings hyaline, the 

 nervures testaceous ; the legs rufo-testaceous, the anterior and 

 intermediate tibiee yellow in fi^ont. Abdomen smooth and shining, 

 the second, third and fourth segments have on each side at their 

 basal margins a transverse yellow spot ; the apex of the abdomen 

 acute. 

 Hab. Australia. 



10. Allodape panurgoides. B.M. 



Female. Length 4 lines. — Black and shming, the face closely 

 and strongly punctured; a narrow line on the clypeus and another 

 close to the eyes yellow ; the cheeks very smooth and shining, 

 the punctures scattered ; the flagellum rufo-testaceous beneath. 



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