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SYEPHID^. 



spur, which is frequently joined to the tip of the spurious vein ; 

 this spur is wanting in some species, but when present it is never 

 situated on the anterior margin of tlie cell, as is normally the case 

 in Microdon. 



249. Paramixogaster vespiformis, Brun. 



Mixogaster vespiformis, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mas. viii, p. 169, pi. vi, 

 figs. 8-10, wing, head, abdomen (1913). 



6 . Head: frons about half as wide as the liead, with parallel 

 sides, black, closely wrinkled ; the dull-red eyes are bare, and, seen 

 in profile, do not attain either the upper or lower limits of the 

 head. Face with short, bright yellow hair ; a narrow reddish- 

 brown stripe extends across the frons, from eye to eye, imme- 

 diately above the autennse. The vertex is gently curved, the 



Fig. 68. — Paramixognster vespiformis, Brim., head in front view. 



whole of the face quite flat. Antennas reddish-brown, absolutely 

 bare ; 1st joint moderately long, elongate, 2ud very short (easily- 

 overlooked), 3rd nearly six times as long as the 1st, elongate, 

 slender, subcylindrical, very slightly thickened beyond the middle, 



Fig. 69. — Paramixogaster vespiformis, 33run., abdomen. 



and tapering to a blunt point; the whole antenna is as long as 

 the distance from the frons to the tip of the scutellum; arista 

 bare, comparatively small, curved, placed near the base of the 

 3rd joint ; this latter joint is bent backwards across the eyes as 

 are tlie anteuuse in the Aculeate Hymenoptera. Back of head 



