HYMENOPTERA. 365 



20. GoRYTES Cayennensis. 



Hoplisus Cayennensis, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. new ser. 116. 



7U(]841). 



Hab. Cayenne. 



21. Gorytes velutinus. 



Hoplisus velutinus. Spin. Gay's Chili, vi. 338. 1. 

 Hab. Chili. 



22. Gorytes pictus. B.M. 



Female. Length 4 lines. — Head black; the antennae and 

 mandibles ferruginous, the scape slightly stained with yellow at 

 the apex in front ; an abbreviated line on the inner and outer 

 orbits of the eyes, that at the inner orbit widest and not extend- 

 ing to the clypeus; the anterior margin of the clypeus black; 

 the mancUbles ferruginous, yellow at their base. Thorax : the 

 mesothorax, and the metathorax at its sides, ferruginous; the 

 scutellum, post-scutelluni, enclosed portion at the base of the 

 metathorax, and the entire thorax beneath, black; the collar, 

 tubercles, and the hinder margin of the scutellum, yellow ; the 

 wings hyaUne, with a dark fuscous spot which occupies the mar- 

 ginal, second submarginal, and half the third submarginal cells ; 

 the nervures and tegula; ferruginous ; a spot beneath the wings 

 and the legs ferruginous ; the anterior tarsi ciliated outside, their 

 apical joint and the intei'mediate tibiae yellow in front ; the pos- 

 terior femora have a fuscous stripe within, and the tibiae and 

 tarsi are fuscous above. The first segment of the abdomen fer- 

 ruginous; the second segment has a narrow pale ferruginous 

 marginal fascia in the middle of its posterior margin, which ex- 

 pands at the sides and occupies the entire lateral margins ; the 

 third and fourth segments pale ferruginous, except their extreme 

 basal margins, which are black ; beneath, the abdomen is black, 

 with the apical margins of the segments narrowly rufo-piceous. 



Hab. Madras. (Coll. Sir Walter ElUott.) 



23. Gorytes Natalensis. PI. XI. fig. 3. B.M. 



Female. Length 7 lines. — Black : head slightly shining, the 

 vertex covered with short fuscous down; the clypeus covered 

 with thin silvery pubescence, its apical margin and the mandibles 

 ferruginous ; tips of the latter black ; the scape yellow in front, 

 the flagellum ferruginous beneath. Thorax : the collar, tuber- 

 cles, lateral margins of the mesothorax, the tegulae and scutellum, 



