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Very similar to yrandijjennis, but the forewings are much 

 narrower and the club joints are a little longer. 



BoTHRioPRiA, Kieffer. 

 Formerly contained only one sp€cies, from Madagascar. 

 The Australian species differ from certain species of the genus 

 Hoplopriella, Dodd, only in having the scape not swollen at 

 its apex, and covering base of pedicel. In one species, 

 aureipeSy the scape terminates in two sharp points, which 

 Kieffer uses as a generic difference to distinguish Hoplo'p'ia, 

 Ashmead; the character is too trivial, however, for generic 

 significance, and Ashmead himself did not mention it ; thus 

 other characters must be found to distinguish that genus, and 

 may be found in ''the carina that runs from the ocelli to the 

 occipital margin and the groove separating the eyes from the 

 antennal prominence" (freely translated from Kieffer). From 

 Paj^amesi/iis, Westwood, and Spiloviicrus, Westwood, Bothri- 

 opria differs in having lateral foveae on the scutellum, which 

 in the Australian species are always narrow and obscure. 



Table of species. 



A. Parapsidal furrows complete and deep. 



(1) General colour chestnut-red leai 



(2) Colour of body whollv black. 



(a) Petiole one-half longer than wide victoriae 

 (h) Petiole two and a half times as 



long as wide unicolor 



B. Parapsidal furrows incomplete, abbreviated 



cephalad. 



(1) Antennae wholly black; scape produced 



into acute points at apex aureipes 



(2) Scape not produced into acute points 



at apex. 

 (a) Pedicel distinctly shorter than 



first funicle joint splendida 



(h) Pedicel not shorter than first 

 funicle joint. 

 Second funicle joint no longer 



than wide atra 



Second funicle joint distinctly 



longer than wide infuscipes 



BOTHRIOPRIA SPLENDIDA, U. Sp. 



9 • Black ; tegiilae, legs, and first five antennal joints 

 golden-yellow. Head normal, the vertex much wider than long, 

 with a few minute setigerous punctures, also the scutum and 

 scutellum ; scutum convex, the parapsidal furrows one-half 

 complete from caudad, deep and distinct, the sclerite without 

 depressions ; scutellum with two very large, irregularly circular 

 foveae at base, and a very narrow shallow one along either 

 side ; metanotum with a raised median carina at base. Petiole 



