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margin, and a second a little before its apex; the third and 

 fourth segments have a band in tlie middle, which on each side 

 is slightly oblique ; the fifth has a band at its base and on each 

 side a short acute tooth bent inwards, the seventh segment has 

 also a small tooth on each side at its base. 



Hab. Georgia. 



15. Melissodes terminata. B.M. 



Female. Length 5i hues. — Black, the labrum and a spot at 

 the tips of the mandibles yellow ; the flagellura, except the two 

 basal and two or three apical joints, fulvous ; the pubescence on 

 the head, thorax and base of the abdomen cinereous, the wings 

 subhyaline, theu- apex faintly clouded ; the legs dark rufo-testa- 

 ceous, the anterior femora have a long fringe of white pubes- 

 cence, the apical joints of the tarsi pale ferruginous ; the pubes- 

 cence on the anterior and intermediate legs cinereous, that on 

 the posterior ])air dense, short, and black. Abdomen covered 

 with fine shallow punctures, the apical margins of the segments 

 shghtly rufo-testaceous ; the apex adorned with short golden 

 pubescence, covering the two apical and the margin of the 

 fom'th segment. In old or worn specimens the golden pubes- 

 cence on the abdomen becomes silvery or white. 



Hab. Venezuela. ' 



16. Melissodes HyEMORRHoiDALis. 



Female. Length 5^ lines. — Black, the head shining, rather 

 strongly ])unctured, the clypeus having a central longitudinal 

 depression, and the face a thinly scattered sooty-black pubes- 

 cence ; the labrum densely covered with pale fulvous pubescence ; 

 the flagellum, except the two basal joints, fulvous beneath ; the 

 thorax shining on the disk, the punctures scattered, thinly clothed 

 with sooty-black pubescence, most dense on the sides and beneath, 

 the pubescence on the anterior and intermediate legs black, that 

 on the posterior tibia; and tarsi pale fulvous, the femora beneath 

 fusco-ferruginous ; the wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures ferru- 

 ginous, the tegula; slightly rufo-testaceous. Abdomen, fusco- 

 ferruginous at the base, the apical margin of the second segment 

 having a yellowish tinge pai'ticularly towards the sides, the rest 

 of the segments of a reddish-yellow, the third and fourth seg- 

 ments at their basal margins laterally slightly fuscous, the four 

 apical segments covered w ith pale fulvous pubescence ; the ab- 

 domen entirely of a red(hsh-yellow beneath, the segments fringed 

 with fulvous pubescence. 



Hab. South America. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



