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few and feeble ; third and follow in<? segments very densely 

 clothed with orange-coloured woolly hair; second basally 

 with black erect pubescence. Wings on the costal portion 

 orange, elsewhere less deeply coloured, some violet irides- 

 cence apieally. 



S . Length to apex of second segment 24- mm. 



The resemblance between this species and the next is 

 quite remarkable and is not merely one of colour, but the 

 general form of the clypeus, mandibles, and propodeum is 

 also concerned. Of course there is really no affinity, the 

 genera being entirely distinct. 



Hab. New Guinea [Pratt). 



Odynenis abi»poides, sp. u. 



Black, the mandibles excepting the teeth, elypeus, supra- 

 clypeal plate, the sinus of the eyes and a line between this 

 and the elypeus, the posterior orbits, two large spots on the 

 pronotum, the hind angles of the propodeum, the antenna;, 

 tibiae, and tarsi, and an apical band on all the abdominal 

 segments (that on the first segment paler) orange. 



Mandibles long and slender, projecting, when crossed, by 

 more than half their length beyond the apical angles of the 

 elypeus, the latter widely and deeply dentately emarginate, 

 feebly punctured. Apical joint of male antennae strongly 

 curved, long, much longer than the twelfth, which is itself 

 elongate and much smaller than the preceding. Head in 

 front coarsely rugosely pnnctured, the vertex subincrassate. 

 Pronotum coarsely and closely punctured, mesonotum very 

 small, much less closely and coarsely, the surface covered 

 with dull black dense tomcntnm concealing the surface. 

 Scutcllum coarsely punctured, the punctures distinct. Pro- 

 podeum rugose, with very close punctures, finer than those 

 on the scutellum, the hind angles produced into a prominent 

 spine. Abdomen deep dull black from the tomentose covering, 

 which in some aspects almost hides the shallow puncturation, 

 the basal segment foveate near the apex in the middle. 

 Second ventral segment with short costaj, behind these it is 

 ■widely flattened and has a shortish median impressed line. 

 Wings orange on the costal portion, the nervures rather 

 darker. 



S . Length to apex of second abdominal segment 14 mm. 



Belongs to the Leionotus section, as generally accepted. 



Hab. New Guinea [Pratt). 



