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strongly and deeply punctured. There is no male called 
ardens at South Kensington, and only one female, which is 
exceedingly unlike Strdari in having its clypeus particularly 
narrow and elongate, with a subtruncate apex. 
In Sirdari (at least, in the specimen before me) the 
orange colour extends from the apex of the abdomen to 
beyond the apex of the third segment, whereas De Saussure 
describes that segment as ‘“‘black”’ simply, alike in syna- 
groides, abysssnicum, and ardens; but this is probably a 
variable character, and might appear in any of the species in 
question, 
Odynerus (Ancistrocerus?) abcrraticus,sp.n. . 
Antennarum apices uncinato-reflexi. Abdominis segmentum 1%™ 
basin versus fortissime transverse cristatum; valde _petioli- 
forme—scilicet longissimum, apicem versus lenissime dilatatum, 
ibique segmento 24 rotundate-campaniformi saltem duplo 
angustius. 
Clypei apex triangulariter excisns. Pronotum angulis inermibus. 
Seutellum longum, fere quadratum. Postscutellum fere in 
formam criste elevatum. Propodeum in medio late ac profunde 
excavatum, are eiusdem laterales postice conice eminentes et 
sub apicibus suis breviter quidem sed acute denticulate. Abdo- 
minis segmenti 2“ pars ventralis tumidissima, quam dorsum non 
minus convexa, sulco costato basali peene nullo. 
Clypeus, mandibule, scapus antice, pronoti anguli interni, macule 
duo postscutelli pene confluentes, pedes infra cum tibiis tarsisque 
totis flava. Tegule flave, nigro-notate. Abdominis segmenti 
primi apex (in dorso) anguste, secundi (et in dorso et in ventre) 
latius, flavo-fasciati. Reliquorum segmentorum apices plus 
minusve obsolete flavo picti, vel omnino nigrantes. 
Caput, thorax cum propodeo, abdominisque 3 segmenta basalia satis 
crasse denseque punctata, subopaca: segmentorum reliquorum 
punctatura magis obsoleta. Latera petioli pilis albidis erectis 
fimbriata, dorsum eiusdem nudum. Facies et pectus strato- 
argenteo-subpilosus. Abdominis segmentum secundum brevissime 
strato-sericeo-pubescens. 
Long. cire. 7 mill, 
Three males, “‘ Abba Hiland, 12 ii. 01.” 
I feel some hesitation in treating this curious little species 
as an Ancistrocerus, but I do not know where else to place 
it. Herr Kohl, who kindly examined it at my request, 
suggests that it may be a new species of Nortonia, Sauss. 
It does not, however, appear to me to agree at all with 
De Saussure’s diagnosis of his genus, and is utterly unlike 
the species which he names as his “ type”? of it, viz. O. inter- 
medius, Sauss. The latter, besides differing completely from 
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. xii. 40) 
