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towards the base, slightly increasing in thickness towards the tips; 
scape yellow. Prothorax with a black transverse interrupted line. 
Mesothorax with the scutum and the parapsides black, bordered 
with luteous; paraptera black except on the outer side; scutellum 
with a black tetragonal spot, armed with two small teeth. Petiole 
linear, fully as long as the metathorax. Abdomen lanceolate, 
black, luteous towards the base, narrower but not longer than the 
thorax. Hind-coxe black towards the tips ; hind-femora armed 
with several minute black teeth; hind-tibiz with a blackish ab- 
breviated line on the upperside. Wings cinereous, with a lurid 
tinge towards the costa; veins tawny; ulna rather more than 
half the length of the humerus; radius a little longer than the 
ulna; cubitus rather short. 
Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 9 lines. 
43. Smiera deducta. 
Feem.—Flava; caput gutta antica fasciaque postica nigris ; 
antennz nigree, scapo subtus flavo ; mesothorax scuti disco, 
parapsidum vittis duabus, parapteris, scutellique macula conica 
nigris ; pectoris discus niger; abdomen fasciis tribus con- 
nexis apiceque nigris; pedes postici coxis, femorum maculis 
duabus, tibiisque basi nigris ; alee cinerez. 
Female.-—Yellow. Head black behind, and with a black dot 
between the base of the antenne and the mouth. Antenne black, 
slightly increasing in thickness to the tips; scape yellow beneath. 
Scutum of the mesothorax black, except along each side; parap- 
sides black along the inner side; paraptera black ; scutellum with 
a black conical spot which rests on the hind-border. Metathorax 
with a black transverse line at the base. Disk of the pectus black. 
Petiole not longer than the metathorax. Abdomen lanceolate, 
much longer and narrower than the thorax, with three black con- 
nected dorsal bands, the 3rd band connected with the apical black 
part, which comprises about two-fifths of the whole length. Hind- 
coxe black ; hind-femora armed with several very minute teeth, 
adorned with two black spots, which are connected below on the 
outer side ; hind-tibiz black at the base. Wings cinereous ; veins 
black ; ulna a little more than half the length of the humerus ; 
radius as long as the ulna; cubitus very short. 
Length of the body 2 lines; of the wings 3 lines. 
44. Smiera attacta. 
Foem.—F lava; caput posticé nigrum; antennz nigrze, subtus 
rufescentes, scapo flavo; prothorax gutta antica nigra; meso- 
