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8. Allodape MUCRONATA. 



Female. Length 6 lines. — Black, the head shining, strongly 

 punctured ; a narrow short yellow line along the inner margin of 

 the eyes; on the lower part of the face ])arallel with the sides 

 of the clypeus is a raised carina \\hich reaches the base of the 

 mandibles ; the clypeus somewhat produced, covered as Avell as 

 the labrum with coarse punctures ; on each side of the stemmata 

 on the vertex are some deej) shining depressions, and a narrow 

 yellow stripe along the hinder margins of the eyes. Thorax, the 

 disk very smooth and shining, the protliorax coarsely punctured; 

 the sides of the thoi-ax have a thin pale fulvous puljescence, the 

 tubercles having a thick fringe of the same behind ; the posterior 

 tibise and all the tarsi densely covered with pale fulvous pubes- 

 cence, the legs being dark rufo-testaceous, the tegulpe are of the 

 same colour, the wings subhyaline, the metathorax rounded and 

 delicately and closely punctured. Abdomen shining, strongly 

 punctured, of a dark rufo-testaceous colour above, beneath much 

 paler and varied with dark stains, very smooth and shining, the 

 apical portion of the segments punctured ; above is a short, thin 

 gi'iseous pubescence, the margins of the segments being pale tes- 

 taceous; the apical segment terminating in a sharp mucro, on 

 each side of which the margin is angulated ; the abdomen is 

 recurved and somewhat concave towards the apex. 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope. (Coll. Fred. Smith.) 



9. Allodape picta. B.M. 



Male. Length 2^ lines. — Black, antennae pale fulvous beneath, 

 fuscous above, the apical joint dilated and compressed; the 

 clypeus and the face on each side yellow, a narrow yellow hne 

 along the inner margin of the eyes; the mandibles and labrum 

 of a testaceous-yellow. Thorax irapunctate, the metathorax 

 rounded behind; the tegulse testaceous, wings hyaline, the 

 nervures testaceous ; the legs rufo-testaceous, the anterior and 

 intermediate tibise yellow in front. Abdomen smooth and shining, 

 the second, third and fourth segments have on each side at their 

 basal margins a transverse yellow spot ; the apex of the abdomen 

 acute. 



Hab. Australia. 



10. Allodape panurgoides. B.M. 



Female. Length 4 lines.— Black and shining, the fnce closely 

 and strongly punctured; a narrow line on the clypeus and another 

 close to the eyes yellow ; the cheeks very smooth and shining, 

 the punctures scattered; the flagellvun rufo-testaceous beneath. 



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