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Mr. R. C. L. Perkins on 
Mandibles bidentate at apex (pygidial area dull, the surface 
with microscopic sculpture and without appressed setae, 
the raised sides thickened about the middle), mandibles 
with a distinct tooth on the inner margin near the middle, 
the mesopectus spinose or tuberculate; mesonotal punc- 
turation excessively minute. 
Ablepharipus gen. nov., A. podagricus, V. d. Lind. 
Pygidial area triangular, not narrowly produced apically, 
finely margined, not impressed or excavated, often clothed 
with appressed setae, sometimes shining and punctate, 
but not setose ; mesonotal puncturation fine, but ordinary. 
. Pygidial area dull, punctate, with conspicuous decumbent 
setae on the apical portion; mesopectus with a small 
spine or tubercle on each side (mandibles bidentate at 
apem).iis) ivi iit wl. 0g) vi@ressocerus, Lep. 
. Clypeus more or less celle or all yellow; superorbital 
foveae obsolete. . «4. «. . C. palmarius, Schr. 
. Clypeus black beneath the silvery hairs; superorbital foveae 
shallow but wide subovate or subpyriform. 
(? subgen. Stenocrabro, Ashm). 
. Anterior area of propodeum finely rugose or striate. 
2). Front legs with the calear often dark; the median channel 
of the anterior area of the propodeum wider and with 
larger spines on the mesopectus . . C. palmipes, L. 
. Front legs with the calcar usually pale; the median channel 
of propodeum narrower and smaller mesopectoral spines 
or tubercles . . . C. varius, Lep. 
. Anterior area of the piopioieien sia smooth, polished 
area on each side of the median channel. C. anxius, Wesm. 
. Pygidial area polished and with large punctures ; mesopectus 
not tuberculate laterally. 
)). Middle tibiae black, yellow only at the base; pygidial area 
blacks) si ae aetk >. MGR helongotmiis Ve a iind: 
. Middle tibiae yellow above; pygidial area red apically. 
C. (2?) wesmaeli, V. d. Lind. 
. Large species, abdomen with yellow marks; superorbital 
foveae large and distinct, well-impressed and dull, or else 
placed in wide lateral depressions of the head, which 
extend from the eye-margins to the ocellar region. 
. Recurrent nervure received by the cubital cell far beyond 
the middle, or not much more distant from the apex 
than the length of the transverse cubital nervure ; pygidial 
area elongate and narrow, and behind the apical part 
with a median longitudinal carina; superorbital foveae 
