208 SPHEGID^. 



Genus PARALIRIS. 



Paraliris, Kohl, Verh. zool-bot. Ges. Wien, 1883, p. 361 ; id. 1884, 

 p. 259. 



Type, P. Tcriechhaumeri, Kohl. 



Range. Africa ; Burma and Tenasseriin. 



Fig. 48. — Famliris faceta, 2- \' 



Characters nearly those of Liris, Fabr., but the whole body- 

 covered with soft thin pubescence, never -wath close pile ; pj'gidial 

 area bare and punctured, as in Larra\ 2nd ventral segment 

 without the marked convexity occurring in Lir'is. 



1 know of only one species found within our limits. 



399. Paraliris faceta, n. sp. 



2 S . Head, pro- and mesonotnm, scutellum, postscutellum, 

 and abdomen sparingly punctured ; the punctures on the abdomen 

 beneath coarser and more scattered ; clypeus with the anterior 

 margin produced in the middle, transverse at apex, the sides con- 

 spicuously emarginate ; front and base of clypeus with long and thin 

 pubescence ; median segment above slightly flat, finely transversely 

 striate, the stria? waved, posteriorly rounded, with a steep slope to 

 the apex, the sides sparsely but regularly punctured and thinly 

 pubescent ; from the base a fine longitudinal carina runs down 

 the middle of the segment, not quite reaching the edge of the 

 rounded posterior slope ; abdomen shining, the apical margins of 

 segments 1-5 very slightly but perceptibly constricted. Black, 

 the pubescence hoary white ; wings fusco-hyaline, suffused with 

 a purplish tint. 



Hah. Burma; Tenasserim. 5 . Length 18-19 ; eoep. 28-32 mm. 

 S . Length 15-17 ; exp. 27-29 mm. 



Genus LYRODA. 



Lyroda, Satj, Jour. Nat. Hist. Bost. i, p. 372 (1837). 

 Morphota, Smith, Cat. iv, p. 293 (1856). 



Type, L. svhita, Say. 



Range. The Nearctic, Neotropic, and Oriental regions. 



