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Dianthidium indescriptum, (Dalla Torre). 



Anthidium cognatum, Smith. 



S. Paulo, Brazil. 



? . Abdomen black without light markings. Dalla Torre 

 wrongly gives the locality as Mexico. 



Dianthidium multiplicatum (Smith). 

 Anthidium nitdtiplicatum, Smith. 



S. PaulOj Brazil. 



A very extraordinary insect ; mandibles with a great 

 process directed upwards ; a large process on face. 



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

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



Parevaspis basalts, Rits. 



Java ; Japan ; China. 



The specimens in the collection 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. ahdomi'nalis, Smith, is from Celebes, 

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

 differs (c?) 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 Oayi, Spinola. 



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

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



Morgania dichroa (Smith). 

 Pasites dichrous, Smith. 



Sierra Leone [Rev.^. D. F. Morgan). 



Head and thorax black, abdomen shining red, the general 

 effect like some Larrid wasp ; hind coxa3 large and long, so 

 that hind legs appear to spring from abdomen; marginal cell 

 obliquely truncate and appendiculate; two submarginal cells; 

 basal nervure passing a short distance basad of transverso- 

 medial ; scutellum strongly bilobed ; maxillary palpi very 

 short. 



