230 HYMENOPTERA. 



and shining, the clypeus and labrum yellow-testaceous, the man- 

 dibles ferruginous towards the apex; the scape ferruginous in 

 front, the face dejjressed, an elevated carina passing between the 

 antennje from the clvj^eus to the anterior stemma. The disk of 

 the thorax glossy, thinly scattered over with pale hairs, and 

 having a central impressed line j^assing from the collar to the 

 middle of the mesothorax, also a shorter line on each side ; the 

 collar and scutellura yellow; the tegulse, extreme -base of the 

 wings and the nervures testaceous, the wings hyaline and beauti- 

 fully iridescent ; the legs pale rufo-testaceous, having the coxae, 

 trochanters and base of the femora black, the two former pale 

 testaceous at theu extreme apex ; the posterior legs have a long 

 pale glittering pubescence. The abdomen oblong, rufo-testaceous ; 

 the basal segment has a central dejjression, the apical segments 

 are dark fuscous and the sides of the anterior segments are 

 spotted with the same colom-, the two apical segments covered 

 with short white haii-s ; the apex acute ; beneath, pale rufo-tes- 

 taceous. 



Hab. Port Natal. (Coll. R. H. Plant.) 



6. Allodape unicolor. B.M. 



Female. Length 2| lines. — Black and shining, the clypeus 

 having an elongate cream-coloured spot, transverse at the base 

 and pointed at the ajjex of the clypeus. The metathorax delicately 

 punctured, the wings hyaline, their extreme base yellowish, the 

 nervures fuscous ; the posterior legs and all the tarsi thinly 

 covered with pale glittering pubescence, the claws testaceous ; 

 abdomen very delicately transversely aciculate, the apical seg- 

 ments rugose ; the apex of the abdomen acute. 



Hab. New Holland. 



7. Allodape marginata. B.M. 



Female. Length 2^ hues. — Black, the cl3'peus cream-coloured, 

 the labruin, apex of the mandibles and antennae beneath ferrugi- 

 nous. Thorax, the disk smooth and shining, the scutellum and 

 metathorax delicately punctured ; the tubercles, teguhe and base 

 of the vpings of a pale testaceous-yellow ; the wings hyaline and 

 iridescent, the nervures pale ferruginous ; the posterior legs and 

 the tarsi covered witli a glittering pale pubescence, the apical 

 joints of the tarsi and the calcaria pale testaceous. Abdomen 

 oblong, acute at the ajjcx, towards which it is roughened ; the 

 margins of all the segments narrowly pale testaceous. 



Hab. East Inches ? 



