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17. Apical segment at least of abdomen red; wings 



fusco-violaceous • ■ ■ ■ 18. 



Abdomen wholly black ; wings flavo- or f usco-hyaliue. 19. 



18. Apical abdominal segment only red; thorax not 



coarsely punctured * A. melanaria CAm. 



Two apical abdominal segments red; thorax very 



coarsely sculptured *A. donaldsoniFox. 



19. Wings flavo-hyaline ; third transverse cubital nervure 



received close to the apex of the radial cell A. insularis Sm. 



Wings fusco-hyaline ; fourth abscissa of the radius 



as long as the iirst A. natalica Turn. 



20. Radial cell narrowly truncate at apex. Length 5 mm. A. minima Turn. 

 Eadial cell broadly rounded at apex. Length 9 mm. 



or more 21. 



21. Head and thorax black with pale yellow markings ... 22. 

 Head and thorax without yellow markings, thorax 



black or more or less red A. erythronota Cam. 



22. Abdomen ferruginous.. *A. saualcinensis Magr. 



Abdomen black A. arabica Turn. 



23. Abdomen black without markings 24. 



Abdomen marked with yellow or white 25. 



24. Antennai orange ; head and thorax closely punctured. A. cJdlensis Gu($r. 

 Antennas black; head and thorax very sparsely 



punctured A. carlonaria Burm. 



25. Wings flavo-hyaline ; abdomen with four or five 



interrupted yellow bands 26. 



Wings fusco-liyaline ; abdomen with one or two 



j'ellowish lateral spots 27. 



26. Legs ferruginous A. anfennata Sm. 



Legs black *A. erythro^yga Burm. 



27. Vertex smooth and shining; third dorsal segment 



only with lateral spots A. hipunctata Perty. 



Vertex sparsely punctured ; second and third dorsal 



segments with whitish lateral spots A. alhomaculata Sm. 



1. Anthobosca australis Sichel. (PI. LXXXII. figs. 1, 2; 

 PI. LXXXIII. figs. 1, 3, 6, 14.) 



Cosila australis Sichel, Sauss. et Sichel, Cat. spec. gen. Scolia, 

 p, 261 (1864), $ . 



DimorphojJtera scoliiformis Sm. Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 238 

 (1868), ?. 



Cosila {Oallosila) aiistralis Sauss. in Grandidier, Hist. Mada- 

 gascar, XX. p. 232 (1892), $ . 



Dimorphoptera nigripennis Sm. Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 239 

 (1868), 6.. 



2 . The radial cell is pointed and detached from the costa at 

 the apex, receiving the second transverse cubital nervure close to 

 the middle, the second abscissa of the radius almost as long as the 

 third. First recurrent nervure received close to the middle of 

 the second cubital cell, second at one-third from the base of the 

 third cubital cell. Third cubital cell fully half as long again on 

 the cubital as on the radial nervure. Basal lobe of tarsal ungues 

 bluntly rounded. Basal joint of hind tarsi with a scopa beneath, 

 in which is a row of longer black spines. Sparsely punctured, 

 shining ; pronotum and scutellum more closely punctured ; 

 pygidium densely clothed with long black pubescence. 



Black, with black pubescence. Wirjgs fusco-violaceous. 



Leneth 2S mm. 



