new Species of African DipJoptera. 447 



ne vois pas (rantre difterence cutrc Ic type de Fabricius ct 

 votre exemplairc du Maroc/' 



An outline drawing of the second and third abdominal 

 sternites, drawn from the type by N'icomte du Buysson, is 

 here reproduced. With regard to tlie females, it is impossible 

 to find any difterence but colour between specimens from 

 Palastine (Jericho), iji the British Museum, and the Moorish 

 females. These latter differ to a considerable degree, from 

 8|)ecinu'ns with the abdominal fascise and the whole pro- 

 thorax ferruginous, to specimens with the anterior margin 

 of the pronotum aud the abdominal markings of a pale 

 "whitish yellow. 



Fig. 1. Fig. 2. 



<2' /J BO. 'sTEFiNITE 

 3 



Sternites 2 and 3 of Masaris, seen in profile, greatly enlarged. 

 Fig. 1. — Masaris vespifonm's, F. Type. 1793. 

 Fig. 2.— Masaris vespiformis, F., subsp. agrjptiacus, M.-Waldo. 

 Type. lull. 



The Vicomte du Buysson says that there is no difference 

 but colour between the females he has examined from Egypt 

 and the specimen from Morocco. He adds, however, that in 

 Egyptian females the base of abdominal tergites 2, 3, 4 is 

 feeLly but visibly depressed, whereas in the Moorish speci- 

 men the base of tergite 2 alone is depressed. No specimens 

 of Egyptian females being available for examination, it has 

 been impossible to record a personal verification of this, but 

 in the females from Jericho, which are doubtless the 

 females of (egyptiacus,i\\e base of tergite 2 alone is depressed. 



Masaris vespiformis, P., subsp. cBgyptiacus, subsp. n. 



J . Xiger ; clypeo, facie, pronoto segmeutis abdominalibus l-G 

 apice, tibiis tarsisque flavia. Segmentis abdpminalibue 2-3 iufra 

 tuberculis duobus subaequalibus armatis. 



