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margin, and a second a little before its apex; the third and 

 fourth segments have a band in the middle, which on each side 

 is slightly oblique ; the fifth has a band at its base and on each 

 side a short acute tooth bent inwards, the seventh segment has 

 also a small tooth on each side at its base. 



Hab. Georgia. 



15. MELISSODES TERMINATA. B.M. 



Female. Length 5^ lines. Black, the labrum and a spot at 

 the tips of the mandibles yellow ; the flagellum, except the two 

 basal and two or three apical joints, fulvous ; the pubescence on 

 the head, thorax and base of the abdomen cinereous, the wings 

 subhyaline, their apex faintly clouded ; the legs dark rufo-testa- 

 ceous, the anterior femora have a long fringe of white pubes- 

 cence, the apical joints of the tarsi pale ferruginous ; the pubes- 

 cence on the anterior and intermediate legs cinereous, that on 

 the posterior pair dense, short, and black. Abdomen covered 

 with fine shallow punctures, the apical margins of the segments 

 slightly rufo-testaceous ; the apex adorned with short golden 

 pubescence, covering the two apical and the margin of the 

 fourth segment. In old or worn specimens the golden pubes- 

 cence on the abdomen becomes silvery or white. 



Hab. Venezuela. 



16. MELISSODES H^MORRHOIDALIS. 



Female. Length 5 lines. Black, the head shining, rather 

 strongly punctured, the clypeus having a central longitudinal 

 depression, and the face a thinly scattered sooty-black pubes- 

 cence ; the labrum densely covered with pale fulvous pubescence ; 

 the flagellum, except the two basal joints, fulvous beneath ; the 

 thorax shining on the disk, the punctures scattered, thinly clothed 

 with sooty-black pubescence, most dense on the sides and beneath, 

 the pubescence on the anterior and intermediate legs black, that 

 on the posterior tibiae and tarsi pale fulvous, the femora beneath 

 fusco-ferruginous ; the wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures ferru- 

 ginous, the tegulae slightly rufo-testaceous. Abdomen, fusco- 

 ferruginous at the base, the apical margin of the second segment 

 having a yellowish tinge particularly towards the sides, the rest 

 of the segments of a reddish-yellow, the third and fourth seg- 

 ments at their basal margins laterally slightly fuscous, the four 

 apical segments covered with pale fulvous pubescence ; the ab- 

 domen entirely of a reddish-yellow beneath, the segments fringed 

 with fulvous pubescence. 



Hab. South America. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



