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hyaline ; the nervures testaceous as well as the posterior 
margin of the tegulas. Head opaque, with a fine silvery 
pubescence on the face ; the cheeks have also a silvery 
pubescence. The thorax opaque, with the raesothorax 
only slightly shining and impunctate, depressed anteriorly 
and with two impressed lines extending to the disk ; the 
metathorax transversely striated above ; the sides of the 
truncation also striated in the same manner; the legs 
shining, and with a changeable silvery pile ; the posterior 
tibiae Avith some bright fulvous pubescent pile at their 
apex within. Abdomen smooth and shining, with change- 
able silvery fasciae on the apical margins of the segments, 
only observable in certain lights; the apical segment 
opaque, except at its basal margin. 
Hab. — Nagasaki. 
4. Larrada ampliperiJiis. ^ 
Male. Length 6 lines. Black, with the tAvo basal 
segments of the abdomen red. Head \Aader than the 
thorax ; the face covered Avith silvery-white pubescence, 
mandibles shining and obsciu'ely ferruginous at their tips. 
Thorax opaque, finely and very closely punctvired ; wings 
fuscous, the posterior pair hyaline at their base ; the tegulae 
obscurely testaceous ; the nervures dark brown ; the meta- 
thorax with a thin cinereous pubescence. Abdomen sHghtly 
shining and thinly covered Avith cinereous pubescence, ob- 
servable in certain lights, as are also the bright silvery 
fascia3 on the apical margins of the segments. 
Hab. — Hiogo. 
5. Larrada Erebus. V 
Female. Length 6i lines. Black, the wings sub- 
hyaline, the nervures dark fuscous. The head shining ; 
a single ocellus situated in a deep frontal irregular depres- 
sion ; the scape robust and compressed ; the anterior margin 
of the clypeus broadly angular ; the mandibles dark ferru- 
ginous and fringed with ferruginous hairs ; the cheeks with 
a thin cinereous pubescence. Thorax: opaque, and closely 
and finely punctured; the metathorax abruptly truncate 
and finely rugulose; transversely so aboA^e ; the legs Avith 
a fine cinereous pile; the apical joint of the tarsi testaceous; 
the claws pale. Abdomen shining and impunctate. 
Hab. — Hioso. 
