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hyaline, yellowish along the eosta, fuseous violaceous at the apex; costa 

 and stigma fulvous testaceous, the nervures black. Male. Length to end 

 of second abdominal segment 6-7 mm. 



Front and vertex closely and strongly punctured. Clypeus longer than 

 its greatest width; the apex roundly incised, the incision wider than long, 

 the sides forming sharp teeth; the upper part of the head covered with 

 long fuscous hair. Apex of pronotum transverse, the sides projecting into 

 stout bluntly pointed teeth. Scutellum with a distinct smooth furrow 

 down the middle; the postscutellum with an oblique slope, there is a 

 transverse depression on either side. Upper side of u'edian segment bor- 

 dered by a stout keel; in the middle is a bluntly rounded tubercle. Pro- 

 and mesopleurae closely rugosely punctured; in the centre of the meso- 

 pleurae is a distinct, deep furrow which extends from the base to shortly 

 beyond the middle; it bears several keels. The upper part of the meta- 

 pleurae is coarsely punctured, almost reticulated; the lower coarsely aci- 

 culated and more or less finely striated. There is a distinct area on the 

 base of the metanotum, bordered by a stout keel which unites with one 

 running down the centre; the surface is covered closely with fine curved 

 striae; the sides below the blunt tooth are bordered by a narrow keel than 

 the upper. Upper part of thorax thickly covered with long fuscous hair, as 

 are also, but not so thickly, the sides. Apices of the basal abdominal seg- 

 ments hardly reflexed; the first segment cup-shaped; the second narrowed 

 at the base, not much longer than its greatest width. Antennal hook 

 stout, twice longer than wide. 



3455 Odynerus {Stenody7ierus) claremontensis sp. nov. 



Female. Black, the clypeus except for three irregular black spots in 

 the centre, a broadish line on the eye incision, commencing at the in- 

 nerside and extending to the clypeus, an irregular mark, longer than 

 broad, over the antennae, the antennal keel, a short broad line on the 

 outer orbits near the top, the basal third of the pronotum, an irregular 

 oval mark near the apex of the mesonotum, postscutellum, sides of me- 

 dian segment broadly, half behind, half on the sides, the apices of the 

 five basal segments of the abdomen broadly, the bands dilated in the 

 middle, a large oblique mark touching the apical band and narrowed to a 

 point on the inner side, a large irregular oblique mark straight in front 

 narrowed and rounded behind on the sides of the second segment, and the 

 second to fourth ventral segments, sulphur yellow; on the centre of the 

 basal three-fourths of the second ventral segment is a large black mark, 

 longer than broad, the sides of the apex obliquely, narrowly dilated; the 

 other segments broadly black at the base, the bands dilated near the 

 outer side; the last segment is entirely black. Legs yellow, the coxae 

 behind, the four front femora broadly at the base and the hinder for the 

 greater part, black. Wings smoky hyaline, tinged with violaceous towards 

 the apex, the stigma and nervures black. Length to end of second abdo- 



