nrtv Sjyeciefi cf s\fruan Diploplcra. 457 



Odvnekus, Latr. 



Odynerns (Ancistrocents) gowdeyanus, sp, n. 



Niger; crasse puuctatus, abdomiue flavo-ochraceo; alls fusco- 

 violaceis. 



S . Black ; abdomen, except segment 1 at base, ocliraceous 

 yellow. "Wings fuscous, with a violaceous effulgence. 

 Clypeus convex, longer than broad, narrowly produced to- 

 wards the apex, shallowly emarginate, angles of emargination 

 produced and acute. 



Thorax : pronotum truncate anteriorly, widening towards 

 the tcgulae ; scutellum aud postscutellum slightly convex, 

 median segment truncate, the sides of the truncation forming 

 two subacute ridges. Abdomen normal, abdominal segment 1 

 massive. 



Punctured ; the head, thorax, and the black area at the 

 base of abdominal segment 1 laterally, covered with deep 

 granular punctures, those on the sides of the median segment 

 running into irregular striae; truncation of median segment 

 finely, transversely striate; abdomen finely punctured. 

 Clypeus and mandibles impunctate. 



Clypeus viewed from above covered with dense bronze 

 pubescence ; abdomen sparsely pubescent. 



Length IH mm. 



Hub. Entebbe, Uganda (C. C. Gowdey), 5.ix. 1910; 2 S - 



Presented by the Entomological Kesearch Committee 

 (Tropical Africa). 



There is a specimen of this most striking Odynerus in the 

 Museum d^ilistoire Naturelle, Paris. 



Pterochilus, Klug. 



Pterochilus cyaneipennis, Andre. 



Pterochilus cyaneipennis, Ed. Andr^, E,ev. Ent. Caen, vol. xiv. p. 355 



(1895). 

 Pterochilus korhi, Schulz, Ilymenopteren-Studien, pp. 48-52 (1905). 

 Pterochilus aterrimus, E. Saunders, Trans. Ent, kSoc. Loud. p. 403 



(1905). 



In a note previously published (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (8) vii. p. 99, 1911) P. aterrimus was synonymized with 

 P. korbi on a comparison between the types, which are in the 

 National Collection. There can be no doubt that they are 

 the Pterochilus cyaneipennis of Ed. Andre, with whose 

 description they entirely agree. The type locality of 

 P. cyaneipennis is also Biskra. 



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