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sides red, and with two red central bands, broadest behind, and not continued 
forward to the base. Scutellum black, the front angles marked with red, and 
a yellow transverse sub-terminal line, edged behind with red. Postscutellum 
yellow in the middle, and red at the sides. Median segment red. Tegulee 
and a spot below red. Mesopleura black in front, and red behind. — Legs red, 
middle tibize yellow above, hind femora blackish in the middle, and with a 
yellow spot at the base outside ; about six moderate-sized black teeth are 
visible on the outside. Abdomen red, the first and second segments with a 
sub-terminal transverse yellow line, edged behind with black. Terminal 
segment not enlarged, ovipositor black, red in the middle, recurved to a little 
more than the hinder third of the abdomen. Wings smoky hyaline. 
Sokotra: Jena-agahan (1200 ft., 12. I. 99); one specimen. 
A species very dissimilar to any other known to me. 
Cryptide. 
Cryptus, Fabricius. 
(2) Cryptus pulcherrimus. 
3 Long. corp. 18 mm. ; long. al. ant. 13 mm. 
Q Long. corp. 15-22 mm.; cum. ovip. 23-32 mm. 
Head and thorax mahogany brown, lower parts of face yellowish ; 
abdomen fulvous, segments after the 3rd mostly blackish ; legs fulvous, hind 
tibize yellowish in the inside in the male, and tipped with blackish in the 
female ; wings yellowish subhyaline towards the base, and rich iridescent 
violet towards the margins, a trace of which colour is sometimes visible on 
the hind coxee. Head and thorax thickly and regularly punctured ; median 
segment rugose-punctate ; scutellum, postscutellum, and abdomen: nearly 
smooth, the latter clothed with very short hair. Clypeus very long, oblong, 
the sides depressed, especially in the middle. Basal segment of the abdomen 
very long, slightly expanded beyond the middle, where the stigmata are 
placed ; 2nd segment about 4 shorter than the first, the basal } with parallel 
sides, the rest widening considerably to the extremity in the 9, but very 
little in the ¢ ; the remaining joints shorter, closely connected, and with 
nearly parallel sides in the male, and forming a long oval in the female. 
Sokotra :; Goahal Valley (16. I. 99); Jena-agahan (1200 ft., 15. I. 99) ; 
Adho Dimellus (3500 ft., 8. I. 99); Dahanus (350 ft., 24. XII. 98); six 
specimens. 
Not closely allied to any specimen in the British Museum. 
Fossores. 
Scoliidz. 
Campsomeris St. Fargeau. 
(3) Campsomeris socotrana. 
Long. corp. 17 mm. ; exp. al. 29 mm. 
Female. Black, face, thorax, and basal half of the segments of the 
abdomen rather thickly punctured ; the vertex and middle of the pronotum, 
and of the scutellum and postscutellum nearly smooth; face sparingly 
clothed with fulvous hair, especially round the base of the antenne ; 
prothorax, ridges of the pleura, and sides of metanotum with fulvous hair ; 
