294 Mr. F. Smith on new Sjjacu-s 



Larrada ferox. 



Female. Length 8-8^ lines. Head and thorax black, 

 abdomen and legs ferruginous. The head and thorax adorned 

 with short silky glittering pubescence, usually more or less 

 abraded on the disk of the mesothorax, scutellum, and meta- 

 thorax above ; the latter obliquely, tinely, and evenly striated ; 

 the scape of the antennee in front and the mandibles fenaiginous ; 

 the cox^e, trochanters, and the anterior and intermediate 

 femora beneath black ; the wings fulvo-hyaline and faintly 

 clouded at their apical margins. Abdomen smooth, shining, 

 and Avith only a few scattered delicate punctures. 



Hah. Africa. 



Larrada diaholica. 



Female. Length 10| lines. Black, with the liead, and thorax 

 anteriorly, covered with bright golden pubescence. Head : the 

 scape and fom* or five of the joints of tlie flagellum, and the 

 mandibles, feiTuginous, the tips of the latter black. The an- 

 terior femora, tibiae, and tarsi feiTuginous ; wings dark brown, 

 with a purple iridescence ; the scutellum smooth and shining ; 

 the metathorax opaque. Abdomen smooth, shining, and im- 

 punctate ; the apical segment ferruginous. 



Hah. Sierra Leone ; Port Natal. 



This species is most closely allied to L. auridenta ; but its 

 legs are black and its Avings darker ; it may nevertheless be 

 a climatal variety of that species. 



Larrada clypeata. 



Female. Length 61 lines. Entirely black; the anterior 

 margin of the clypeus emarginate in the middle, the lateral 

 angles forming two blunt tubercles or teeth ; the clypeus and 

 sides of the face thinly covered with silvery pile. The meso- 

 thorax and scutellum shining, and closely and finely punctured; 

 the metathorax opaque, Avith a longitudinal central channel, on 

 each side of Avhich it is indistinctly and finely striated obliquely 

 in the middle, but more strongly and irregularly so at the 

 sides ; the Avings fuseo-hyaline, the neuration black. Abdomen 

 smooth, shining, and very finely and closely pimctured. 



Hah. NcAV Caledonia. 



Larrada crassvpes. 



Female. Length 7 lines. Entirely black ; wings fuscous, 



hyaline toAvards their base, the nerAOU-es black. Head densely 



covered in front, as high as the ocellus, with bright silveiy 



pile ; that on the clypeus has a faint golden tint. The thorax, 



