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Mr. W. E. Shuckard’s Descriptions 
trochanters chalybeous, and the extreme apex of the tibiae and entire 
tarsi piceous ; the tibiae very slightly externally spinose. 
The abdomen with a minute white spot on each side of the first 
segment at its apex, and a widely interrupted band on the three 
following, which is continued, yet slightly interrupted in the centre, 
at the margin of the ventral plates ; the lateral valves of the seventh 
segment also white and externally ciliated. $. 
From the neighbourhood of Sydney, New South Wales. 
In my own Collection, and in that of the Entomological Society, 
formerly Mr. Kirby’s. 
Family. POMPILIDiE. 
Genus. Ceropales, Latr. 
Species 1. Cerop. picta, Shuck. 
Nigra; ore, anlennis, scntello, prothorace, metathorace, pedibusque 
rujis ; abdomine fasciis quinque albidis. 9 . 
Length S| lines. Expansion of the wings 6 lines. 
Black ; the orbit of the eyes, with the exception of a small 
space interrupted at the vertex, and the lateral basal angles of the 
clypeus, white. The antennae, remainder of the clypeus, labrum, 
and mandibles, red. The thorax has the prothorax, scutellum, 
tegulae, and metathorax, red ; a white line beneath the scutellum, 
and the wings hyaline, with their extreme apex dark. The legs 
red. 
The abdomen black, with a red band, followed by a white one 
just beyond the centre of the first segment, and the margins of the 
third, fourth, and fifth, and apex of the sixth, white. 2 • 
From the Cape of Good Hope. 
In my own Collection. 
Obs. — This is gayest insect I know amongst its congeners. 
Species 2 . Cerop. anomalipes, Shuck. 
Nigra ; aureo-pubescens ; abdomine pedibusque rufo-testaceis ; femori- 
bus tibiisque quatuor anterioribus brevibus, crassis, compressius- 
culis ; pedibus duobus poster ioribus gracilibus. $. 
Length 5 g lines. Expansion of the wings 11| lines. 
Black ; the first and second joints of the antennae beneath, the 
entire face beneath their insertion, the clypeus and the mandibles, 
with the exception of their extreme apex, white, as well as a cen- 
tral minute spot beyond the base of the antennae, and the internal 
orbits of the eyes halfway up ; a depression in the face on each 
side just beneath the vertex, forming a slight cavity for the recep- 
tion of the scape of the antennae ; the stemmata placed high, near 
