400 (ESXKID.'E. 



(S $ . Head as broad as thorax ; iu J , frons, measured along 

 middle line of eyes, slightly less than one-third width of head, 

 distinctly broader above than below, brownish-orange, as are also 

 the face and underside of head; all wholly covered with bright 

 golden-yellow, moderately long and dense pubescence ; ocellar 

 spot blackish, wilh golden-yellow pubescence; first tuo joints of 

 antennte yellowish, 3rd reddish-brown, as is also the anterior 

 margin of the frons, overhanging the antennal cavity; occiput 

 brownish-orange with concolorous pubescence ; eyes dark chestnut- 

 brown. In 2 5 frons distinctly less than half width of head, 

 narrower above and broader below, brownish-orange, as are also 

 the face and lower part of the head ; eye-margins broadly, antennal 

 cavity and a small semicircular space above it, livid yellowish- 

 white, almost translucent. The whole head, including the 

 brownish-orange occiput, with sparse, short, yellowish hairs ; 

 ocellar spot brownish, rounded, with a few short yellowish hairs, 

 with a narrow black transverse stripe behind it on the vertex ; in 

 all else as in the c? • Thorax in c? wholly brownish-orange, 

 covered with dense, long, bright orange pubescence ; scutellum 

 similar, lower margin conspicuously bare. In 2 , moderately 

 shining black ; humeri, posterior calli and parts of pleurae darker 

 brown, all with dense yellowish-grey, almost greenisli-grey, 

 pubescence ; some blackish-brown stiff pubescence on each side of 

 dorsum just behind suture and a fan-shaped bunch of long grey 

 pubescence on either side behind posterior calli. Scutellum dark 

 iDrown, with brownish-grey pubescence and a quantity of very 

 erect strong blackish-brown pubescence on hind margin. Abdo- 

 men as broad as thorax, narrowed (especially in 5 ) towards tip. 

 In c? , first two segments blackisli (possibly, though apparently 

 not, discoloured), remainder moderately dark shining chestnut- 

 brown ; all covered with rather dense, liright orange pubescence, 

 which is considerably paler on 1st and 2nd segments. Venter 

 concolorous, and with pubescence similar, but developed to a less 

 degree. In 5, moderately shining, very dark mahogany-brown, 

 nearly black ; sides of segments more or less chestnut-brown ; 

 basal segment with moderately dense, rather long, pale yellowish- 

 grey pubescence; remaining segments with shorter, sparse, 

 depressed, whitish pubescence; venter mainly dark brown, \^'ith 

 ratiier long yellowish-grey pubescence ; genitalia shining reddish- 

 brown. Legs in S brownish-orange ; femora blackish except at 

 tips, with longbrownish-orange pubescence, except on upper sides, 

 where the pubescence is very short ; tibiae with fine yellow hairs, 

 shortest on inner side ; claws and pulvilli yellowish-orange, tips 

 of former black ; anterior metatarsi not so long as, hind metatarsi 

 a little longer than, remaining four joints together. In $ , coxse 

 and trochanters reddish-brown to brownish-orange, sometimes 

 more or less blackish in front, with bristly black hairs intermixed 

 with more numerous, yellowish-grey, longer hairs. Femora dark 

 brown, except rather narrowly brownish-orange at base and tip ; 



