318 HYMENOPTERA. 



5. Saropoda LUTULENTA. 



Saropotla lutulenta, Klug, Symb. Phys. dec. v. t. 50. f . 5 ? . 

 Hab. Egypt. 



6. Saropoda bombiformis. B.M. 



Female. Length 6 lines. — Black, the scape of the antennfe, 

 clypeus and labrum of an orange-yellow, the mandibles yellow, 

 their tips ferruginous ; the flagellum rufo-piceous beneath. The 

 entire insect clothed with a short rich fulvous pubescence, having 

 a golden effulgence on the abdomen ; the legs fulvo-ferruginous, 

 the posterior femora more or less fuscous ; wings fusco-hyaline, 

 the nervures black, the tegulse pale rufo-testaceous ; the posterior 

 tibife and the basal joint of the tarsi fringed with black pubes- 

 cence, the claws black. Abdomen, the base of the second seg- 

 ment naked, forming a black band, the apical margins of the 

 third and fourth segments and the entire apical ones fulvous. 



Male : var. a. The legs entirely dark fuscous, and the posterior 

 tarsi black. 



Male. — This sex is coloured precisely the same as the female. 



Hab. AustraUa (Richmond River). 



7. Saropoda latizona. 



Saropoda latizona. Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vii. 543. 82 (1838)- 

 Hab. Egypt. 



8. Saropoda humilis. 



Saropoda humihs. Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vii. 544 (1838). 

 Hab. Africa. 



9. Saropoda nigrilabris. 



Saropoda nigrilabris. Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vii. 543 (1838). 

 Hab. Africa. 



Genus 50. HABROPHORA. 



(F. Smith's MSS.) 



The labial palpi 4-joiuted, the basal joint thrice the length of 

 the second, the third and fourth minute, inserted at the side and 

 near the apex of the second joint ; the mentum about one-third 

 shorter than the labium. 



The maxillary palpi 6-jointed, the basal joint scarcely half the 

 length of the second, the third a little longer than the first ; the 



