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tarsal spines with a more rufous tinge. Abdomen ferruginous, the 

 petiole and the apical segment black. The petiole covered with long 

 white hairs ; the other segments with ferruginous, except the last, which 

 has blackish hair ; the ventral keel has a slight curve, and at the apex 

 projects into a short, triangular tooth ; the hypopygium has the sides 

 keeled to near the base ; the keel is narrow, straight and carved inward- 

 ly at the apex. Wings smoky, with a slight, but distinct, violaceous 

 tinge ; the first cubital cellule at the top is not half the length of the 

 second ; the second transverse cqbital nervure is roundly curved above 

 the middle. 



SCOLIID^. 

 Myzine apimacula, sp. nov. 



Nigra, tlagello antennarara tarsisque rufo-testaceis ; abdominis apice 

 late rufo ; alis hyalinis, nervis pallidis. $ 



Length. — 9 mm. 



Habitat. — Deesa. 



Antenn83 rufo-testaceous ; the scape, except at the apex, black ; the 

 scape, with a few hairs, smooth and shining ; the basal joints of the 

 flagellum obliquely and gradually narrowed from the apex to the base. 

 Clypeus rufous, strongly punctured, except at the base. Mandibles 

 rufous, the apex black. Pro-and meso-thorax shining ; the pro- 

 finely and somewhat closely punctured ; the meso-notum is impunctate 

 at the base ; the rest of it with minute, scattered punctures. Scutellum 

 sparsely punctured on the sides and on the basal half ; the post-scutellum 

 is minutely punctured. Median segment closely and rather strongly 

 aciculated ; the apical slope bears also some minute punctures, and is 

 thickly covered with white pubescence. Pro-pleurse with scattered 

 punctures ; the apex closely, rugosely aciculated ; the meso- punctured, 

 except at the apex ; the meta- closely, obliquely striated. Legs black ; 

 the greater part of the tibiae and the tarsi rufous ; the tibiae and tarsi 

 are thickly covered with white hair. Wings clear hyaline ; the radial 

 cellule of a faint fuscous colour ; the stigma and nervures pale testace- 

 ous. Abdomen black ; the back from the apex of the third segment 

 and the ventral side from the apex of the second, red ; it is sparsely 

 covered with long white hair and minutely, but not closely, punctured ; 

 there is a closely striated band behind the apex of the pygidium. 



A species easily known by the red apex of the abdomen. It is one 

 of the smaller species. 



