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marked scattered punctures on distal half or more. Fine silvery 
pubescence and some rather short erect hairs on body. 
Male, allotype: Length, 10 mm. Much slenderer and duller than 
female, the blue hardly metallic; clypeus, frons to above base of 
antennae, basal joints of antennae beneath carneous white, articles 
6 to about 9 yellowish beneath; legs with a portion of coxae be- 
neath pale } yellowish or brownish, femora light and dark brownish 
with tinge of purplish, rest of legs more or less dull brownish, 
side of first abdominal segment and apical margin of this and fol- 
lowing segments pale. Antennae as in the female, quite long and 
slender, article 3 longer than 4; postnotum two-thirds or more as 
long as metanotum, “shallow ly suleate and with about six trans- 
verse carinae ; propodeum shallowly suleate, with fine, rather ir- 
regular transverse striae or rugulae. Clothed with silvery pube- 
scence and some erect hair. Sixth ventral segment with a fine, 
rather thin and flat median tooth, as long as it is wide at base, its 
sides rather concave, sides of segment drawn out into a somewhat 
obliquely pointed tooth or process. Seventh sternite shaped like 
the end of a boat, longer than wide, and with an elevated shallowly 
depressed, margined slender we edge tapering to a point. 
Type 12, Lower Makiling forest, Los Bafios, March, 1917. 
Paratypes 1¢@, Los Banos, July, 1917; 1 bred (allotype) and 1 
other %, same locality, 1917. 
SPHECIDAE. 
Larrinae. 
Hyloliris, new genus. (Figs. 19, 20 and 70.) 
(Forest Liris.) 
Related to Liris and Dicranorhina. 
Head wider than thorax and proportionately large; face much 
as in Liris, with a swelling along inner eye margin, a transverse 
swelling on forehead; the two posterior ocelli reduced, trans- 
verse and proximate ; clypeus very wide, with the median portion 
well produced and bilobed; eyes strongly converging towards 
vertex; mandibles not excised beneath; maxillary palpi with six 
and the labial with four articles. Pronotum well beneath the 
level of mesonotum and fitting into the latter at an obtuse angle; 
mesonotum quite wide, propodeum truncate at apex. Legs 
rather long and stout; wings with venation as in Liris except 
that the second submarginal cell is narrower along the marginal, 
and the second discoidal is wider along the cubitus than in Liris. 
Abdomen short, subsessile. 
