TACniSPTIEX. — LAURA. 195 



Var. "With the clvpeus reddish, the 3rd-5th segments poste- 

 riorly fuscous. 



(S similnr, but with the pubescence and silvery pile more 

 dense, the eyes more coiiveri;;eiit at the vertex, and only the basal 

 three and tlie apical abdominal segments red. 



Hah. North- West Provinces ; Mussooree, 7000 ft. $ . Len;/th 

 12 ; e.vp. 22 mm. d • Length 9 ; ex^i. 1-t mm. 



377. Tachysphex eiythrogaster, Cam. Mem. Mnnch. L. Ph. Soo. 



(4) ii, 1889, p. 14.3, § . 



2 • Head and thorax pubescent, rugosely punctured underneath 

 the pubescence; clypeus truncate anteriorly, the sides oblique, 

 labrum incised ; ocellar ai'ea raised, broadly furrowed down the 

 middle ; median segment with a furrow at apex : abdomen with 

 transverse bands of silky pile on the apical margins of the lst-5th 

 segments above. Black, the head and thorax covered with dense 

 silvery pubescence ; the scape of the antennae, the clypeus, legs, 

 and the abdomen red, the transverse pilose bands on the la^t 

 silvery ; wings hyaline, uervures brown, tegula) pale reddish. 



Hah. Bombay; Bangalore. $. Length 13; e.vp. 25 m.m. 



378. Tachysphex rufo-niger, n. sp. 



5 . Head and thorax closely and very minutely punctured, the 

 face, clypeus, and cheeks more or less densely pilose, the vertex with 

 a A-shaped furrow behind the posterior ocelli, the mesonotum, 

 scutellum, and postscutellum slightly shining ; the median 

 segment above finely and transversely and on the sides obliquely 

 striate, the apex roundly truncate and with the sides slightly 

 pubescent ; abdomen long, longer than the head and thorax 

 united, segments 1-5 with transverse bands of silky pile on 

 their posterior margins ; pygidial area large, bare, and sparsely 

 punctured. Black, the basal three abdomiTial segments red, the 

 apical third of the 3rd segment with a fuscous band, the 4th and 

 5th with their apical margins narrowly testaceous ; legs black, 

 with the apical three joints of the tarsi reddish ; the silky pile on 

 the head and on the abdomen has a silvery lustre in certain lights; 

 wings very light fusco-hyaline. 



Hah. Xorth-West Provinces. J . Length 9-10 ; exj). 16 mm. 

 c5' unknown. Type in British Museum. 



Genus LARRA. 



Larra, Latr. Precis Caract. Gen. Ins. p. IIG, 17 gen. (1796). 



Liris, ///(//. Hdit. Fmm. Etrusc. ii, ]). 101 (1807). 



Tachyte?, pt., Lejiel. Ilt/m. iii, p. 239(184o). 



Larrada, pt., Smith, Cat. iv, p. 274 (1856). 



Larra, Kohl, Verh. zoul.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1884, p. Go. 



Type, L. anathema, Rossi. 

 lian'/e. Both hemispheres. 



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