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the insertion of the abdomen) yellow: wings, iridiscent, infumated, hairy at 
bases, and sparsely sprinkled with very minute hairs; principal veins 
reddish-brown, cross veins blackish. Legs: all the femora, and the coxe 
and tibie of posterior pair, very dark ferruginous; the coxe of the two 
anterior pairs and all trochanters yellow; all the tarsi, and the tibie of the 
two anterior pairs, light red-ferruginous ; a pair of large spines at the apical 
ends of posterior tibie. Abdomen smooth and shining ; at the apical ends 
of the 1st and 2nd segments a broad yellow fascia trifid basally, the extreme 
apical margins dark-coloured ; the 2nd segment has also a lateral linear 
yellow spot ; each of the four following segments has a longitudinal oblong 
yellow spot in the middle above, and also an elongate yellow one laterally, 
the lateral ones in the 8rd, 4th, and 5th, occupying nearly the whole length 
of the segment; the 6th has three yellow lateral spots; and the two follow- 
ing segments have yellow stripes extending to the apical segment, of which 
the margin is dark-coloured ; the minute anal styles at top flavescent ; the 
end of abdomen very thick, largely revolute, and there 5 lines in diameter. 
Ovipositor setaceous, stiff, slightly curved, 24 inches long, its two sheaths 
ciliate and finely serrulate at margins, and coiled up (in spirits); tips sub- 
linear-spathulate, concave, obtuse, membranous, light-coloured. 
Length, direct and plane, 18 lines; or, to extreme end of curvature, 
22 lines. 
Hab. High and dense forests near Norsewood, . OMS County ; April, 
1884: W.C. 
Obs. This fine insect is entirely new to me; and from its being so large 
and so striking I conclude it to be scarce. None of the many residents in 
that locality had ever seen one before, and were much struck with its size 
and handsome appearance. For a long time I have been in doubt whether 
it is not Rh. fractinervis, Vollenhoven; which species, in spots and markings, 
it greatly resembles, and it is only after long and close study of it, and 
comparing it with the description given of Rh. fractinervis* that I have 
believed it to be distinct. Its much larger size, very peculiarly shaped end 
of abdomen and lateral yellow spots on its second segment, dark colour of 
its femora and posterior tibie, etc., striped clypeus, yellow margins of the 
basal joints of antenne, iridiscent and hairy and dusky-coloured wings, 
8 ocelli, ete., have caused me so to determine. 
Genus Lissonota. 
L. multicolor, sp. nov. 
Ferruginous, spotted with yellow and black. Head: orbits of eyes, 
gens, a narrow transverse line above labrum, and mentum light yellow; 
* «Cat. of Hymenoptera,” etc., by Professor Hutton, p. 128; where, however, it is 
named Rh. antipodum, Smith: this name, Professor Hutton informs me in a letter, 
must yield priority to the other. 
