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3. Meria KuuGil. B.M. 
Meria Klugii, Westw. Proc. Zool. Soc. (1835) p. 53. 1. 
Guér. Rev. Zool. (1840) p. 365. 3, 
Hab. Sierra Leone; South Africa. (Coll. Dr. A. Smith.) 
4. MERIA ABDOMINALIS. 
Meria abdominalis, Guér. Rev. Zool. (1840) p. 365, 5. 
Hab. Cape of Good Hope. 
5. MreRIA THORACICA. 
Meria thoracica, Guér. Rev. Zool. (1840) p. 365. 6. 
Hab. Arabia. 
6. MeRIA LIMATA. B.M. 
Female. Length 3} lines.—Head and thorax black and shining, 
the clypeus, mandibles, and organs of the mouth ferruginous, the 
flagellum and tip of the scape rufo-piceous ; head subrotundate, 
wider than the thorax, impunctate. The prothorax having a few 
scattered punctures, the metathorax oblique, highly polished and 
impunctate ; wings subhyaline, nervures ferrugmous, stigma fus- 
cous ; legs rufo-piceous, their articulations and the tarsi ferru- 
ginous. Abdomen entirely bright ferruginous, the second and 
third segments having at their extreme lateral margins an oblique 
narrow elongate-ovate white spot. 
Hab. Interior of South Africa. (Presented by the Earl of Derby.) 
Very closely resembling M. tripunctata, but the head is of a 
different form, the metathorax impunctate, and the abdomen 
entirely red. 
Genus 9. TIPHIA. 
Tiphia, pt., Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 223 (1793). 
Bethylus, pt., Panz. Krit. Revis. Faun. Germ. ii. 134 (1805-6). 
1. TrIPHIA FEMORATA. B.M. 
Tiphia femorata, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 353. 19. 
Rossi, Faun. Etrus. ii. 67. 828. 
Panz. Faun. Germ. p. 53. 3. 
Latr. Hist. Nat. xin. 267. 
Jurine, Hym. p. 149. t. 9. f. 11. 
Spin. Ins. Lig. i. 81. 1. 
St. Farg. § Serv. Ency. Méth. x. 655. 
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