280 HYMENOPTEIIA. 



in certain lights ; tbe apical segment rugose, the extreme apex 

 ferruginous. 



Hah. China. 



Species of Africa. 

 Div. 1. Abdomen red^ or red and black. 



17. Larrada h^morrhoidalis. B.M. 



Pompilus hsemorrhoidalis, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 198. 55. 



Lyrops Savignyi, Sjnn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vii. 476. 26 (1838). 



Lii'is orichalcea, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 135. 



Liris Savignyi, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 471. 2. 



Tachytes illudens, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 249. 12. 



Hab. Africa(Egypt; Sierra Leone; Gambia); India (Punjaub,&c.). 



18. Larrada abdominalis. 



Larra abdominalis, Guer. Voy. Abyss. Lefeb. vi. 358. t. 8. f. 7. 

 Hab. Abyssinia, 



19. Larrada rubella. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Head, thorax and legs black ; the 

 face covered with bright silvery pubescence; the base of the 

 mandibles and the cheeks thinly covered with silvery pubes- 

 cence ; the palpi, mandibles and scape in front obscurely ferru- 

 ginous. The mesothorax and scutelhim closely punctured, the 

 metathorax coarsely rugose ; the wings subhyaline, their apical 

 margins with a broad fuscous cloud, the nervures and tegulse 

 dark ferruginous. Abdomen dark red, the basal segment more 

 or less black at the sides ; the apical margins of the segments 

 with fasciae of silvery pubescence. 



Hab. Fernando Po. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



20. Larrada rufiventris. 



Larrada rufiventris. Spin. Ann.Soc. Ent. Fr. \ii, 479,15 ^ {1838). 

 Hab. Egypt. 



Div. 2. Abdomen black. 



21. Larrada nigrita. B.M. 



Tachytes nigrita, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 241. 2. 



Lucas, Explo. Sc. Alger, iii. 247. t. 13. f. 10. 



Hab. Algeria; Madeira. 



