280 HYMENOPTEUA. 



in certain lights ; the apical segment rugose, the extreme apex 

 ferruginous. 



Hab. China. 



Species of Africa. 



Div. 1. Abdomen red, or red and black. 



17. Larrada h^morrhoidalis. B.M. 



Pompilus hfemorrhoidalis, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 198. 55. 



Lyrops Savignyi, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vii. 476. 26 (1838). 



Liris oriehalcea, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 135. 



Liris Savignyi, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 471. 2. 



Tachytes illudens, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 249. 12. 



Hab. Africa(Egypt; Sierra Leone; Gambia);IncIia(Punjaub,&c.). 



18. Larrada abdominalis. 



LaiTa abdominalis, Quer. Voy. Abyss. Lefeb. vi. 358. t. 8- f. 7- 

 Hab. Abyssinia. 



19. Larrada rubella. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Head, thorax and legs black ; the 

 face covered with bright silvery pubescence ; the base of the 

 mandibles and the cheeks thinly covered with silvery pubes- 

 cence ; the palpi, mandibles and scape in front obscurely ferru- 

 ginous. The mesothorax and scutellum closely punctured, the 

 metathorax coarsely rugose ; the wings subhyaline, their apical 

 margins with a broad fuscous cloud, the nervures and tegulae 

 dark ferruginous. Abdomen dark red, the basal segment more 

 or less black at the sides ; the apical margins of the segments 

 with fasciae of silvery pubescence. 



Hab. Fernando Po. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



20. Larrada rufiventris. 



Larrada rufiventris, Spire.^wre.Soc.Ewt Fr.vii. 479. 15$ (1838). 

 Hab. Egypt. 



Div. 2. Abdomen black. 



21. Larrada nigrita. B.M. 



Tachytes nigrita, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 241. 2. 



'Lucas, Explo. Sc. Alger, iii. 247. t. 13. f. 10. 



Hab. Algeria; Madeira. 



