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AmMOPHILA ERYTHROCErHALA, Fab. 

 This large and striking species is a Pa7-apsaininophila^ 

 The head is large ; the eyes reach only exactly opposite 

 the level of the hind ocelli, the vertex being much more 

 developed behind them than usual ; they are quite parallel, 

 not converging at the bottom as in A. violaccipennis \ the 

 antennae issue from nearly opposite their middle, and not 

 so high up as in the latter species ; the clypeus does not 

 project in the middle, and is truncated at the apex. The 

 mandibles are very large and projecting, almost as in 

 Ampulex. The neuration of the wings is very much as in 

 Violaceipennis. Antennae black, pilose ; the 3 — 4 basal 

 joints red, the third is nearly twice the length of the fourth.. 



AmMOPPIILA violaceipennis, Sp. 1101'. 



Nigra ; scapo antennaniin,petiolo pedibusqne, rufis ; coxis 

 apiceqiie tarsoruni nigris, alls violaceis. $ Long. 29 mm. 



Head shining, sparsely punctured ; the clypeus and face 

 covered with silvery pubescence ; the front and vertex with 

 longish, blackish hair ; clypeus somewhat projecting ; the 

 apex with a distinct margin, a little sinuated ; mandibles 

 broadly red in the middle. The antennae incline to fuscous 

 beneath, especially at the base ; the third joint is longer 

 than the first and second joints united, and about one-fourth 

 longer than the fourth. Thorax densel}- covered with 

 blackish hair ; coarsely punctured ; the mesonotum rugosely 

 striolated in the middle at the apex ; scutellum coarsely 

 rugosely striolated ; metanotum coarsely rugosely punctured 

 in the middle, at the sides obliquely striolated ; the pleurse 

 coarsely rugosely striolated. Pygidium broadly rounded, 

 pilose. Second and third cubital cellules above subequal ; 

 the transverse cubital cellules elbowed towards the middle, 

 thus making the third cubital cellule wider in the middle 

 than at top or bottom ; the first recurrent nervurc is received 



