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Larrada ferox. 



Female. Length 8-8^ lines. Head and thorax black, 

 abdomen and legs ferruginous. The head and thorax adorned 

 with short silky glittering pubescence, usually more or less 

 abraded on the disk of the mesothorax, scutellum, and meta- 

 thorax above ; the latter obliquely, finely, and evenly striated ; 

 the scape of the antennas in front and the mandibles ferruginous ; 

 the coxae, trochanters, and the anterior and intermediate 

 femora beneath black ; the wings fulvo-hyaline and faintly 

 clouded at their apical margins. Abdomen smooth, shining, 

 and with only a few scattered delicate punctures. 



Hab. Africa. 



Larrada diabolica. 



Female. Length 1(H lines. Black, with the head, and thorax 

 anteriorly, covered with bright golden pubescence. Head : the 

 scape and four or five of the joints of the flagellum, and the 

 mandibles, ferruginous, the tips of the latter black. The an- 

 terior femora, tibia?, and tarsi ferruginous ; wings dark brown, 

 with a purple iridescence ; the scutellum smooth and shining ; 

 the metathorax opaque. Abdomen smooth, shining, and irn- 

 punctate ; the apical segment ferruginous. 



Hab. Sierra Leone ; Port Natal. 



This species is most closely allied to L. auridenta ; but its 

 legs are black and its wings darker ; it may nevertheless be 

 a climatal variety of that species. 



Larrada clypeata. 



Female. Length 6^ lines. Entirely black ; the anterior 

 margin of the clypeus emarginate in the middle, the lateral 

 angles forming two blunt tubercles or teeth ; the clypeus and 

 sides of the face thinly covered with silvery pile. The meso- 

 thorax and scutellum shining, and closely and finely punctured; 

 the metathorax opaque, with a longitudinal central channel, on 

 each side of which it is indistinctly and finely striated obliquely 

 in the middle, but more strongly and irregularly so at the 

 sides ; the wings fusco-hy aline, the neuration black. Abdomen 

 smooth, shining, and very finely and closely punctured. 



Hab. New Caledonia. 



Larrada crassipes. 



Female. Length 7 lines. Entirely black ; wings fuscous, 

 hyaline towards their base, the nervures black. Head densely 

 covered in front, as high as the ocellus, with bright silvery 

 pile ; that on the clypeus has a faint golden tint. The thorax, 



