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anterior sterama, where it divides and partly encloses it ; the 

 head is shining and strongly punctured. Thorax smooth and 

 shining on the disk, very delicately punctured, interspersed with 

 larger punctures, particularly the scutellum and sides of the 

 thorax ; wings subhyaline, the nervures fuscous ; the legs have 

 a pale glittering pubescence, that on the tarsi, which is dense, 

 slightly yellow ; the posterior tibia; towards their apex in front 

 and the claw-joint of the tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen shining, 

 delicately punctured, and coveretl with shallow rough sculpturing, 

 particularly the three apical segments ; the entire margins of the 

 segments narrowly rufo-testaceous. 



Hah. Sierra Leone. (Coll. the Rev. D. F. Morgan.) 



This species sometimes has a yellow transverse line on the 

 scutellum, more or less frequentljf entirely obsolete. 



3. Allodape simillima. B.M. 



Female. Length 3i lines. — Black, very closely resembling 

 A.pictifrons; the clypeus is, however, more produced, and has a 

 broad pear-shaped yellow spot extending from its base to the 

 apex ; the thorax is similarly sculptm-ed ; the base of the wings 

 and outer margins of the tegultC are pale testaceous, the wings 

 hyaline, the second submarginal cell narrowed toAvards the mar- 

 ginal, more angulated than in A. pictifrons, but the abdomen is 

 of the same form and colour, and is similarly sculptured. 



Hab. Australia (Macint}Te River). (Coll. — Ker, Esq.) 



4. Allodape foveata. B.M. 



Female. Length 4 lines, — Black, shining and punctm'ed, the 

 clvpeus pale vellow. Thorax, the disk smooth and very delicately 

 punctured, the metathorax fringed on each side with silvery 

 glittering hairs ; the tegulje rufo-testaceous, the nervures fenai- 

 ginous ; the posterior tibia; and all the tarsi clothed with a ght- 

 tering pale pubescence, the claw-joints ferruginous ; the calcaria 

 pale testaceous. Abdomen oblong, narrowest at the base, which 

 has a deep fovea, the apex acute; delicately punctured and inter- 

 spersed with larger punctures, most closely so towards the apex ; 

 the margins of the segments narrowly testaceous. Beneath, the 

 thorax is thinlv covered with griseous pubescence, the margins of 

 the segments are fringed with pubescence of the same colour. 



Hab. Sierra Leone. (Coll. the Rev. D. F. Morgan.) 



5. Allodape variegata. B.M. 

 Female. Length 3 hnes. — Head and thorax black, smooth 



