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APIDjE. 



stripes across the middle of the abdominal segments, yellow ; the 

 antennfc, the legs, and the black portions of the abdomen more or 

 less piceous ; the scape of the antennae in front fulvous ; wings 

 hyaline, bright fulvous along the costal margin. 



Hah. Rangoon, Burma, $ . Le^ujth 10 ; exp. 22 mm. The 

 type and only specimen as yet known is in the British Museum, 



Genus PAREVASPIS. 

 Parevaspis, JRitsema, Tijd. v. Ent. xvii, p. Ixxi (1874). 



Type, P. ahdominalis, Smith. 



Range. Indo-Malayan region. 



Head transverse, as broad as the thorax ; ocelli in a broad curve 

 on the vertex ; inner orbits of eyes parallel ; clypeus convex, 

 broad ; mandibles broad, armed with three teeth ; antenna) fili- 

 form ; labial palpi 4-jointed, the basal joint more than twice the 

 length of the 2ud joint, apical two joints minute, articulated to 



Fig. 165. — Parevasjns. 

 1, Maxilla ; 2, labium ; 3, antenna ; 4, face from front. (Much enlarged.) 



the side of the apex of the 2nd joint ; maxillary palpi 2-joiuted, 

 both joints minute; scutellum broad, flat, horizontal, deeply incised 

 at apex, the sides rounded; legs short, slight, without dense 

 pubescence^ or scopa. Tore wings with the radial cell subacute 

 at apex ; two cubital cells, the 2nd cubital cell receiving the 

 1st recurrent nervure near the base, the 2nd recurrent nervure 

 terminating beyond the apex of the cell. Abdomen broad, sub- 

 ovate, convex above, subconcave beneath ; the apical segments 

 curved downwards ; the anal segment ( $ ) rounded and slightly 

 incised in the middle posteriorly, ( S ) tridentate posteriorly. 



This genus is very close to Stelis, but the mouth-parts are dif- 

 ferent, and the male anal segment in the latter is rounded, not 



