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and the posterior tibiz at their apex outside, yellow. The 
wings hyaline, their nervures ferruginous. Abdomen: a 
broad yellow band on the apical margins of the first four 
segments, all interrupted, the two first most widely so; 
shining and punctured. 
Male.—Rather smaller, but very like the female; the 
tibie and tarsi yellow, and more or less ferruginous 
beneath. 
LARRIDZ. 
Astata agilis. 
Female.—Length 34 lines. Head, thorax and legs 
shining black; abdomen ferruginous, with the apex 
black. Head: the mandibles ferruginous in the middle; 
the face with a silvery-white pubescence; a little, thin, long 
pubescence of the same on the cheeks and hinder margin 
of the vertex. On the prothorax, anterior margin of the 
mesothorax, the sides of the thorax and also beneath, a 
thin, long, silvery pubescence ; the metathorax above with 
divergent striz, which are reticulated between, the apex 
truncate ; wings hyaline, with a fuscous cloud beyond the 
stigma, the extreme apical margin pale; the tarsi rufo- 
piceous. The abdomen smooth and shining. 
Hab.—WNischiudipore. 
NYSSONIDA. 
Gorytes amatorius. 
Beale Tipe ath 3} lines. Black, variegated with 
white and ferruginous. Head: the face as high as the 
insertion of the antenne and the scape in front white; the 
mandibles ferruginous, the scape of the antennz fulvous 
beneath; the cheeks and clypeus with a silvery pile. 
Thorax: a narrow line on the collar, the tubercles, a spot 
on the mesothorax close to the tegule and the post- 
scutellum white; the legs ferruginous, with the tibie, 
tarsi and the apex of the anterior and intermediate tibic 
beneath white; the tibie more or less ferruginous; the 
claw-joint of the posterior tarsi black; wings hyaline and 
iridescent. Abdomen: the basal segment ferruginous, 
black above towards the apex, and with a narrow, white, 
interrupted fascia on its apical margin; the three follow- 
