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dorsal segment of the abdomen more distinctly rounded at 

 the apex. The coloured marks are more numerous and more 

 extensive on papuensis. In the form of the clypeus the present 

 species resembles lepidohirtus, Turn., from Queensland, but in 

 that species the median segment is much broader, the third 

 abscissa of the radius shorter, as in papuensis, and the 

 recurrent nervures received further from the apex of the cells. 

 The differences are probably of subspecific rather than of 

 specific importance. 



Cryptocheilus (Priocnemis) woodfordi, sp. n. 



$ . Clypeus twice as broad as long, slightly convex, porrect 

 and almost transverse at the apex, covered with very fine 

 golden pubescence, with a few scattered punctures each 

 bearing a long fulvous hair, the apical margin smooth. 

 Head covered with fine golden pubescence ; eyes very slightly 

 converging towards the vertex, where they are separated by 

 the length of the third and half of the fourth joints of the 

 thigellum, the posterior ocelli twice as far from the eyes as 

 from each other; first and second joints of the flagellum 

 combined almost as long as the third and fourth. Pronotum 

 broadly arched posteriorly, postscutellum strongly raised in 

 the middle, subtuberculate, median segment transversely 

 rugosely striated, with a tubercle on each side at the base. 

 Abdomen shining, slightly pruinose, the second ventral seg- 

 ment with a transverse groove. Tarsal ungues with one 

 tooth before the middle. (Second abscissa of the radius equal 

 in length to the third, nearly twice as long as the first ; 

 second recurrent nervure received just before one-third from 

 the base of the third cubital cell, first just before the apex of 

 the second cubital cell. Cubital nervure of the hind wing 

 originating just beyond the transverse median nervure, 

 almost interstitial. 



Ferruginous ; abdomen black ; wings entirely fuscous with 

 bright purple-blue gloss. 

 Length 20-25 mm. 



Hub. Rauro, Solomon Islands ( Woodford) . 

 Very near fervidus, Sm., from Aru. 



Smith states that the clypeus of fervidus is rounded at the 

 apex. This is not the case in a specimen from Dory, New 

 Guinea, identified as fervidus by Smith. This is the speci- 

 men referred to by him (Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. iv. p. 120, 

 Suppl. 1860), and has the tarsal ungues bifid not toothed. I 

 have not seen typical fervidus^ but if the tarsal ungues are 

 toothed the - present species will only stand as a geographical 



