HYMENOPTEKA. 365 



20. GoRYTES Cayennensis. 



Hoplisus Cavennensis, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. new ser. 116. 



71c? (1841). 



Hab. Cayenne. 



21. GoRYTES VELUTINUS. 



Hoplisus velutinus. Spin. Gay's Chili, vi. 338. 1. 

 Hab. Chili. 



22. GoRYTES PICTUS. B.M. 



Female. Length 4 lines. — Head black ; the antennae and 

 mandibles ferruginous, the scape slightly stained with yellow at 

 the apex in front; an abbreviated line on the inner and outer 

 orbits of the eyes, that at the inner orbit widest and not extend- 

 ing to the clypeus; the anterior margin of the clypeus black; 

 the mandibles ferruginous, yellow at their base. Thorax : the 

 mesothorax, and the metathorax at its sides, ferruginous ; the 

 scutellum, post-scutellum, enclosed portion at the base of the 

 metathorax, and the entire thorax beneath, black; the collar, 

 tubercles, and the hinder margin of the scutellum, yellow ; the 

 wings hyaline, with a dark fuscous spot which occupies the mar- 

 ginal, second submarginal, and half the third submarginal cells ; 

 the nervures and tegulae ferruginous ; a spot beneath the wings 

 and the legs ferruginous ; the anterior tarsi ciliated outside, their 

 apical joint and the intermediate tibiae yellow in front ; the pos- 

 terior femora have a fuscous stripe within, and the tibiae and 

 tarsi are fuscous above. The first segment of the abdomen fer- 

 ruginous ; the second segment has a narrow pale ferruginous 

 marginal fascia in the middle of its posterior margin, which ex- 

 pands at the sides and occupies the entire lateral margins ; the 

 third and fourth segments pale ferruginous, except their extreme 

 basal margins, which are black ; beneath, the abdomen is black, 

 with the apical margins of the segments narrowly rufo-piceous. 



Hab. Madi-as. (Coll. Sir Walter Elliott.) 



23. GoRYTES Natalensis. pi. XI. fig. 3. B.M. 



Female. Length 7 lines. — Black : head slightly shining, the 

 vertex covered with short fuscous down; the clypeus covered 

 with thin silvery pubescence, its apical margin and the mandibles 

 ferruginous ; tips of the latter black ; the scape yellow in front, 

 the flagellum ferruginous beneath. Thorax : the collar, tuber- 

 cles, lateral margins of the mesothorax, the tegulse and scutellum. 



