mo NEW GUINEA IN 1904 anv 1905. PART I. 225 
lian species e. g. O. subalaris Sauss., Vespides, III, Pl. XIV, fig. 5. 
Odynerus (Leionotus) fulvopruinosus sp. nov. 
Black, the head and thorax densely covered with a fulvous 
pile; a curved mark, narrowed above, bordering the black 
centre of the clypeus, the mandibles, except at the apex, where 
they are rufous, 2 small oblique marks, united below, over the 
antennæ, a small mark on the centre of the sides of the scu- 
tellum, the sides of the post-scutellum broadly, a large trian- 
gular mark (the apex below) and the narrowed base, sides 
and apex of the 1 abdominal segment (the line on the apex 
not continuous, being interrupted in the middle by a black 
one), pale yellow. Antennal scape yellow below, the flagellum 
rufous, irregularly marked with black above. Legs black to 
the apex of the femora, the rest rufo-testaceous. Wings hyaline, 
the radial cellule clouded in front, the stigma rufo-fuscous, 
the costa and nervures darker. 9. 
Length to end of 15 abdominal segment 8 m.m. (the other 
segments are amissing in the only specimen in the collection). 
Etna Bay. ) 
Vertex sparsely, the upper part of the front more strongly 
punctured, the punctuation in the middle going down to the 
base of the antennae and, laterally, to the lower edge of the 
eye incision. Clypeus strongly, but not closely, punctured, as 
wide as long, below ending in a sharp point. Temples broad, 
rounded. Occiput roundly incised. Base of thorax above sharply 
margined, not transverse, being slightly roundly dilated in 
in the middle, the lateral angles slightly projecting, but not 
forming teeth. The thorax is somewhat strongly, but not 
closely punctured; there are no furrows on the mesonotum. 
There is a short furrow on the apical slope of the scutellum. 
_ The post-seutellum has an oblique, straight slope, its apex is 
broadly rounded. Metanotum short, distinetly widely depressed 
in the middle, the depression deepest in the middle, the sides 
