4 Mr. F. Smith's descriptions of new species 



Tryphon obstructor. 



Length 2| lines. Head and thorax black, abdomen 

 red and black. The mandibles and palpi pale testaceous, 

 as are also the anterior and intermediate coxge and tro- 

 chanters ; the legs otherwise red. The thorax opaque, 

 and with the metathorax, the sides and beneath covered 

 with a fine, thin, sericeous pile ; wings subhyaline, the 

 nervures and stigma fuscous, the tegvilfs with a white 

 spot. The three basal segments of the abdomen black, 

 with their apical margins ferruginous; the following seg- 

 ments with an oblong quadrate black spot in the middle, 

 extending to about two-thirds of the length of the seg- 

 ments. 



What I think is probably a variety of this species has 

 the posterior coxaj black. 



PiMPLIDES. 



lAssonota fiavo-picta. 



Length 4 — 5 lines; of the ovipositor 6 lines. Ferru- 

 ginous, the head and thorax spotted with yellow. Head, 

 the orbits of the eyes, the clypeus and the mandibles yel- 

 low, the latter black at their tips. The mesothorax with 

 two narrow longitudinal lines which widen anteriorly into 

 an angulated shape, the prothorax with two longitudinal 

 stripes at tlie sides, an oblong broad stripe beneath the 

 wings and all the coxse above, yellow ; the scutellum, post- 

 scutellum, a minute spot on each side of the metathorax 

 above, another in the middle of its posterior margin, and 

 a broad stripe on its sides, yellow ; the metathorax trans- 

 versely finely aciculate ; wings hyaline, the stigma ferru- 

 ginous. Abdomen smooth and shining. 



The male is smaller, usually three and a half lines 

 long, is coloured like the female, but has the face entirely 

 yellow. 



Lissonota albo-jncta. 



Length 3 — 4 lines. Ferruginous, with the head black. 

 The head with the orbits of the eyes white ; the mandibles 

 white at their base. Thorax : a central longitudinal black 

 line on the mesothorax, and a narrow interrupted white 

 one on each side of it, which expands anteriorly into a sub- 

 triangular shape ; a large ovate spot beneath the Avings, 

 and two or three small ones before it, two being on the 



