304 Mr. F. Smith's Descrifptions 



2. DoUchurus ignitus. 



Female. Length 3| lines. Black and shining^ the 

 tip of the abdomen red. 



Head: black, shining, and strongly punctured, the 

 vertex most sparingly so; the clypeus smooth and shining, 

 its anterior margin truncate and rufo-piceous ; the man- 

 dibles ferruginous, their extreme base and apex black. 

 The pro- and meso-thorax shining ; the metathorax with 

 the margins above carinate, with a central and two lateral 

 carinas, between which is a series of transverse elevations 

 irregular and ill-defined ; the truncate portion is coarsely 

 rugose, and the lateral margins have a minute tooth 

 beyond the middle; the wings hyaline and iridescent; 

 the outer margin of the tegulae piceous ; the tarsi, and 

 the anterior tibiae obscurely ferruginous. Abdomen 

 shining and impunctate; the margins of the two basal 

 segments constricted; the two apical segments ferru- 

 ginous. 



Hab. — Port Natal. ■ 



In F. Smith's Collection. 



3. DoUchurus taprobdncB. 



Male. Length 4^ lines. Black, smooth, and shining. 



Head : the face longitudinally rugulose, a few scattered 

 punctures before the ocelli, with the vertex impunctate; 

 the clypeus with a central elevated carina ; the palpi pale 

 testaceous ; the tubercle in the middle of the face deeply 

 concave. Thorax: the mesothorax with a few fine shal- 

 low punctures ; the metathorax margined above, with 

 two approximate carinae in the centre, and another on 

 each side, the interspaces rugose ; the truncation rugose, 

 with a stout tooth in the middle of the lateral margins ; 

 the wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures black; 

 the thorax is strongly and closely punctured at the sides 

 and beneath. Abdomen smooth, shining, and impunctate. 



Hab. — Ceylon. 



In F. Smith's Collection. 



Fam. LAKRID^. 



Genus Laerada. 

 Larrada chrysonota. 



Female. Length 6j lines. Black, and adorned with sil- 

 very pile, the mesothorax clothed above with golden pile. 



