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397. Liris ducalis. 



Larradfi ducalis, Smith, Join: Linii. Soc. 1861, p. 84, 5 • 

 Larra (Liris) ducalis. Kohl, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. [Vien, 1884, 

 p. 243. 



$. Head dull and opaque on the vertex; on the clypeus, 

 front, sides of the face, cheeks, and occiput densely pruiiiose ; 

 thorax, pro- and mesonotum, scute! lum and postscutelknu smooth 

 and shining; the posterior margin of the pronotum, the lateral 

 and apical margins of the mesonotum, and the sides of the scu- 

 tellum and postscutellum densely pruinose ; median segment long, 

 narrowed posteriorly, the apex abruptly truncate ; above obliquely 

 striate, with a medial longitudinal carina from the base of the 

 segment continued over the face of the truncation to the apex ; 

 legs short, stout, spinose, the anterior femora beneath pruinose ; 

 abdomen smooth, not very shining, basal segment at base vertical, 

 nearly truncate ; pygidial area set with stiif short hairs. Jet- 

 black, with brilliant shining golden pile; the pygidium with black 

 or fulvous red hairs ; wings dark brown, with a rich purple 

 effulgence. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Burma ; Tenasserim; Ceylon; Celebes, 5 . Leiujth 

 24-30 ; exp. 42-48 mm. 



398. Liris haemorrhoidalis. (PI. II, fig. 2.) 

 Pompilus hiBmorrhoidalis, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 198. 

 Liris savignyi, Spin. Ann. Soc. Fnt. Fr. 1838, p. 47(>. 



Lvrops hieDiorrhoidalis, Guer. Cuv. Icon. Ret/n. Ani)n., Ins. p. 



'439, 2- , 

 Lyrops aureiventris, Guer. t. c. p. 440, pi. Ixx, fig. 9, cJ . 

 Liris orichalcea, Dahlh. Hi/m. Eur. i, p. 135, S. 

 Liris savignyi, Dahlh. t. c. i, p. 471, J 2 • 

 Tachytes illudens, LepeJ. Hi/m. iii, p. 249, $ . 

 Larrada hsemorrhoidalis, Smith, Cat. iv, p. 280. 

 Liris haemorrhoidalis, Kohl, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1884, 

 pp. 244, 256. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen covered with a dense, short, 

 silky pile above and on the sides ; beneath and the legs bare ; 

 median segment long, longer than the rest of the 'thorax, rugose 

 above underneath the pubescence, obscurely transversely striate ; 

 on the sides it is finely and obliquely striate. Black, the b.ase of 

 the mandible, the scape and basal two or three joints of the 

 flagellum of the antennae, the tegidcB, the legs except the coxa?, 

 trochanters, and sometimes the base of the femora, and the apical 

 margins of the 4th and oth abdominal segments above pale 

 rufous ; the dense golden sill<y pile has a tesselated appearance 

 on the abdomen, and is paler and longer on the median segment ; 

 wings flavo-hyaline, the apical margins fuscescent. 



(S similar, slightly smaller; the 2ad joint of the posterior tarsi 

 a little dilated. 



Hah. Spain ; Sicily ; Egypt ; Senegal ; Syria ; Aden ; Western 

 India ; Punjab. $ . Length 17-24 ; exp. 32-42 mm. S . Lenrith 

 15-20; ea*p. 27-35 mm. 



