230 HYMENOPTERA. 



and shining, the clypeus and labrum yellow- testaceous, the man- 

 dibles ferruginous towards the apex; the scape ferruginous in 

 front, the face depressed, an elevated carina passing between the 

 antennae from the clypeus to the anterior stemma. The disk of 

 the thorax glossy, thinly scattered over with pale hairs, and 

 having a central impressed line passing from the collar to the 

 middle of the mesothorax, also a shorter line on each side ; the 

 collar and scutellum yellow ; the tegulae, extreme base of the 

 wings and the nervures testaceous, the wings hyaline and beauti- 

 fully iridescent ; the legs pale rufo-testaceous, having the coxae, 

 trochanters and base of the femora black, the two former pale 

 testaceous at their extreme apex ; the posterior legs have a long 

 pale glittering pubescence. The abdomen oblong, rufo-testaceous ; 

 the basal segment has a central depression, the apical segments 

 are dark fuscous and the sides of the anterior segments are 

 spotted with the same colour, the two apical segments covered 

 with short white hairs ; the apex acute ; beneath, pale rufo-tes- 

 taceous. 



Hob. Port Natal. (Coll. R. H. Plant.) 



6. ALLODAPE UNICOLOR. B.M. 



Female. Length 2| lines. Black and shining, the clypeus 

 having an elongate cream-coloured spot, transverse at the base 

 and pointed at the apex of the clypeus. The metathorax delicately 

 punctured, the wings hyaline, their extreme base yellowish, the 

 nervures fuscous ; the posterior legs and all the tarsi thinly 

 covered with pale glittering pubescence, the claws testaceous ; 

 abdomen very delicately transversely aciculate, the apical seg- 

 ments rugose ; the apex of the abdomen acute. 



Hob. New Holland. 



7. ALLODAPE MARGINATA. B.M. 

 Female. Length 2^ lines. Black, the elypeus cream-coloured, 



the labrum, apex of the mandibles and antennae beneath ferrugi- 

 nous. Thorax, the disk smooth and shining, the scutellum and 

 metathorax delicately punctured ; the tubercles, tegulae and base 

 of the wings of a pale testaceous-yellow ; the wings hyaline and 

 iridescent, the nervures pale ferruginous ; the posterior legs and 

 the tarsi covered with a glittering pale pubescence, the apical 

 joints of the tarsi and the calcaria pale testaceous. Abdomen 

 oblong*, acute at the apex, towards which it is roughened ; the 

 margins of all the segments narrowly pale testaceous. 



Hab. East Indies ? 



