266 HYMENOPTERA. 



band, broad and almost uniting at the sides, but much attenuated 

 inwardly; the third, fourth and tifth segments at their basal 

 margins have a transverse interrupted narrow band ; the apical 

 segment subquadrate, the apex ferruginous ; on each side towards 

 the base a short acute tooth, the apex having four short acute 

 teeth above, and two below rather longer but less acute. 



Hab. The Gambia. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



30. CCELIOXYS LORICULA. 



Male. Length 5 lines. — Black, head and thorax coarsely 

 punctured, the face covered with a golden pubescence, and a 

 narrow line of white behind the eyes. Thorax, the disk covered 

 with large oblong punctures, those on the scutellum finer, close 

 and rounded, the posterior margin rounded, armed on each side 

 with a stout acute tooth ; the wings fuscous, palest towards their 

 base, the tegulae and nervures black, the thorax beneath covered 

 with a short dense silvery-white pubescence, the femora beneath 

 and the tibiae and tarsi above clothed with the same. Abdomen 

 shining, the basal segment covered with scattered punctures, a 

 few at the base and apex of the following; the basal segment 

 has laterally a short mai'ginal fascia, and the apical margins of 

 the following segments a very narrow fascia slightly widening 

 laterally ; the apical segment armed on each side with a short 

 acute tooth, and with four at the apex, the upper pair roimded 

 at their apex, the inferior pair longest and subacute. 



Hab. Guinea. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



31. CCELIOXYS FUSCIPENNIS. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Black, the head and thorax strongly 

 punctured, the sides of the face and cheeks densely covered with 

 snow-white pubescence, the clypeus thinly covered. Thorax, a 

 spot behind the wings, the metathorax on the sides, and a large 

 patch beneath the wings of white pubescence; the femora beneath 

 and the tibia and tarsi above have a covering of very short white 

 pubescence, the legs rufo-testaceous, wings dark fuscous, sub- 

 hyaline towards their base, the nervures black, the scutellum 

 behind rounded and armed on each side with a short blunt tooth 

 diverging outwards. Abdomen shining, the basal segment strongly 

 and closely punctured, the punctures scattered on the other seg- 

 ments ; the apical one very finely punctured ; the segments have 

 very narrow white marginal bands widened at the sides ; beneath, 

 they are narrow and interrupted in the middle ; the superior 

 plate of the apical segment is carinated in the middle and acute 



