Collection of llif, liritisJi }fnsniin, 207 



Dianthidium indescriptum (Dalla Torre). 



Anthidium cotjtxttum, Smith. 



S. Paulo, Brazil. 



? . Abdomen black without liglit markings. Dalla Torre 

 wrongly gives the locality as Mexico. 



Dianthidium multiplicalum (Smith). 

 Anthidium imdtiplicatum, Smith. 



S. Paulo, Brazil, 



A very extraordinary insect; mandibles with a great 

 process directed upwards ; a large process on face. 



A. maculatum, Sni., A. deccptum, Sm., A. chilense, Spin., 

 and A. cotoratum, Sm., all belong to Anthidium proper. 



Purevanpis baaalis, Rits. 



Java ; Japan ; China. 



Tlie specimens in the coUectiun from these countries appear 

 to belong to a single species, though the Java insect has a 

 lighter red abdomen than the others, and a Japanese example 

 has a little black at the base of the first abdominal segment. 

 The original type of P. ahdoininalis. Smith, is from Celebes, 

 and while it is very similar to hasalis, as here understood, it 

 differs ( J ) by its narrower abdomen (which is of the darker 

 shade, as in Japanese and Chinese examples of basalis), with 

 the median apical projection broad and slightly inclined to be 

 notched, whereas in basalis it is narrow and spine-like. 



Epiclopus Gayiy Spinola. 



Melecta chilensis, Smith, is a synonym. The male has the 

 clypeus covered with a sort of roof of appresscd white hair. 



Morgania dichroa (Smith). 

 Pasitpn dichruui, Smith. 



Sierra Leone {liev. D. F. Morgan). 



Head and thorax black, abdomen shining red, the general 

 cflect like some Larrid wasp ; hind coxa; large and long, so 

 that hind legs appear to spring from abdomen; marginal cell 

 obliquely truncate and append iculate; two submarginal cells; 

 basal nervure passing a short di.-.tance basad of transvcrso- 

 medial ; scutellum strongly bilobed ; maxillary pal[)i very 

 short. 



