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Squama simple, obtuse; sagitta thick, short, roughly trigonal; 

 uncus slender, acute, decurved. The genitalia are similar in type to 

 Pseudomasans. 



I have not seen a female. The description is drawn from a male 

 of the type species, subspecies aegyptiacus. 



Type. — Masaris vespiformis Fabricius, by designation of Latreille, 

 1810. 



Habitat. — Africa. 



Species of MASAEIS 



dlscrepans Brauns, (^, 5. Cape Colony. 



1913. Masaris discrepans, Brauns, (^, $. Entomologische Mitteilungen, 

 vol. 2, p. 203, pi. 2, fig. 9a. 

 ^saussurei Brauns, c^, J. Cape Colony. See MasarieUa.] 

 spinolae Saussure, 5- Cape Colony. 

 vespiformis Fabricius, c?, 5. Egypt, Algeria. 



1911. Masaris vespiformis Meade-Waldo. Annals and Magazine of Nat- 

 ural History, (8), vol 8, p. 445, illus. 

 subspecies aegyptiacus Meade-Waldo, (^. Egypt, 



1911. Masaris vespiformis subspecies aegyptiacus Meade-Waldo, c?. An- 

 nals and Magazine of Natural History, (8), vol. 8, p. 447, illus. 



Genus Pseudomasaris Ashmead 



Figures 6, 10, 19-21, 31-33, 96, 108. 

 1902. Pseudomasaris Ashmead. Canadian Entomologist, vol. 34, p. 221. 



J*. Eyes deeply emarginate ; mandibles acute, with two minute 

 denticulations on the inner margin ; clypeus convex, the apical margin 

 broadly emarginate ; glossae very elongate, retractile, about 7 times 

 as long as the paraglossae ; labial palpus usually 2-segmented, rarely 

 1- or 3-segniented, in which case the first segment is much longer than 

 the following, and the third if present is stout and shorter than the 

 second, the second segment may be indistinctly separated from the 

 first ; maxillary palpus reduced to a single segment, usually a mere 

 tubercle, sometimes exceedingly minute ; a distinct lacinia present, with 

 a ciliate inner margin, also a subgalea and sometimes what probably 

 represent two lobes of the galea, sometimes only one. Segments 8 to 

 12 of the antennae closely fused into a club, which may be concave or 

 convex beneath, and is of varying shape ; scape short, nearly globular, 

 pedicel short, segments 3 to 5 linear, the sixth and seventh sometimes 

 widened, occasionally much so. 



Tegula elongate, the outer margin notched ; parapsidal furrows 

 absent. 



Anterior trochanter unarmed ; tarsal claws simple ; middle tibia 

 with one apical spur ; posterior tibial spur bifid. Porewing with cells 

 R4 and R- coalesced (2 submarginal cells) ; m-cu arising from M^. 



Abdomen sessile, the second, third, and fourth dorsal segments con- 

 stricted at base, the last dorsal decurved, its apex, seen from the side. 



