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rangle higher than its breadth in middle; labrum, basal half of 

 mandibles, clypeiis except upper part (where the lower edge of the 

 black has the outline of a very broad W), a triangular supraclypeal 

 mark, lateral face marks narrowing to a point on orbit nearly level 

 Avith anterior ocellus, and line along posterior orbits, all yellow^ ; scape 

 much dilated, yellow with a large black triangle on one side above; 

 flagellum ferruginous, strongly blackened above, reaching about to 

 anterior part of scutellum, the apical joint attenuated and directed 

 to one side at end, forming a sort of hook; second antennal joint 

 sunken in apex of scape; third much longer than fourth, though not 

 long; ninth and tenth more or less tuberculate beneath; mandibles 

 with a strong inner tooth; tongue long and slender, its length about 

 4, 165ju; labial palpi normal for the genus, four-jointed, second joint 

 about 765 fj. long, first about 1,920 /*; blade of maxilla elongated, 

 broad basally, but the apical two-thirds slender, with small erect 

 bristles along the inner edge; maxillary palpi six-jointed, the first 

 three joints at least twice as thick as the other three, the first less than 

 half length of second; lengths of joints in /.: (1) 102, (2) 255, (3) 

 255, (1) 201, (5) 170. (0) 13(5; maxillary comb very strongly de- 

 veloped," paraglossa^ about 1,020 /x long, thus much shorter than first 

 joint of labial palpi; mesothorax and scutellum dull, yellowish-brown, 

 the hind part of scutellum dull orange ; pleura and metathorax black, 

 the pleura shining with sparse punctures; postscutellum yellow, as 

 also upper edge of prothorax, interrupted in the middle, two short 

 stripes on anterior middle of mesothorax, a dull spot above each 

 tegida, and small spots on axillte; tubercles orange, strongly produced 

 and pointed; tegula' fulvous, rather large; stigma small; marginal 

 cell broadly rounded at end ; basal nervure meeting transversomedial ; 

 third submarginal cell longest, receiving second recurrent nervure at 

 beginning of its last third ; second submarginal broad, almost if not 

 quite as long below as first, and receiving first recurrent nervure 

 beyond the middle; third transversocubital nervure strongly and 

 abruptly bent ; tibia^ all yellow (hind tibia? black at extreme base) ; 

 anterior and middle femora yellow, partly black above; hind femora 

 greatly swollen and thickened, bulging beneath near base, black, with 

 a broad yellow stripe on outer side ; hind tibia thick but not conspic- 

 uously abnormal, but with an extremely large and broad dark ferru- 



<»The mouth-parts are described from a slide-mount made by Mr. Craw- 

 ford. Compared with Exomalopsis {E. solani Cockerell), the paraglossse of 

 C. bruncri are much longer, the tongue is longer, and the maxillary palpi are 

 very much shorter in comparison with the blade or galea, being hardly half 

 its length, whereas in the Exomalopsis the palpus is little shorter than the 

 galea. The maxillary l)lade of V. bruncri shows sume approach to the condition 

 found in Entechnia. 



