new Species of African Diplopfera. 



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ne vols pas d'autre difference entre le type de Fabricius et 

 votre exemplaire du Maroc." 



An outline drawing of the second and third abdominal 

 sternites, drawn from the type by Vicomte du Buysson, is 

 here reproduced. With regard to the females, it is impossible 

 to find any difference but colour between specimens from 

 Palastine (Jericho), in the British Museum^ and the Mooi'ish 

 females. These latter differ to a considerable degree, from 

 specimens with the abdominal fascise and the whole pro- 

 thorax ferruginous, to specimens with the anterior margin 

 of the pronotum and the abdominal markings of a pale 

 "whitish yellow. 



Fij?. 1. 



Fiff. 2. 



f\BD..STERNIJE 



2 Abd. stern I TE 

 3 



Steinites 2 and 3 of Masaris, seen in profile, greatly enlarged. 

 Fig. 1. — Masaris vesptfortnis, F, Type. 1793. 

 rig. 2. — Masaris vespifortnis F„ subsp. cegyptiacus, M.-Waldo. 

 Tjpe. 1911. 



The Vicomte du Buysson says that there is no difference 

 but colour between the females he has examined from Egypt 

 and the specimen from Morocco. He adds, however, that in 

 Egyptian females the base of abdominal tergites 2, 3, 4 is 

 feebly but visibly depressed, whereas in the Moorish speci- 

 men the base of tergite 2 alone is depressed. No specimens 

 of Egyptian females being available for examination, it has 

 been impossible to record a personal verification of this, but 

 in the females from Jericho, which are doubtless the 

 females of agj/ptiacus, the base of tergite 2 alone is depressed. 



Masaris vespiformis, F., subsp. cegyptiacus, subsp. n. 



S . Niger ; clypeo, facie, pronoto segmeutis abdominalibus 1-6 

 apice, tibiis tarsisque flavis. Segmentis abdominalibus 2-3 infra 

 tuberculis duobus subsequalibus armatis. 



