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JAMES WATERSTON. 



Spilochalcis andersoni, sp. nov. (%. 4). 



An orange red species with black markings. 



(J. Antennae blackish brown, the scape paler on the ventral edge. Frons, genae 

 and occiput, at the sides, orange, post-scapal and ocellar areas and the mid occiput 

 black. Mandibles orange-yellow, with the teeth brown. Thorax, abdomen and 

 legs orange, with the following marks :— a broad, median black band extending 

 over all the notum of the thorax, occupying about one-third of the pronotum, and 

 widest anteriorly on the mid lobe of the mesonotum, on which sclerite it is medianly 

 contracted ; it covers the suture, but does not invade the side lobes or axillae ; after 

 the suture it contracts, and only expands again narrowly above the metathorax. 

 The mesosternum is extensively brownish, and the prosternum less so ; the lower 

 two-thirds of the mesopleural femoral furrow, and a spot above the insertion of the 



Fig. 4. iSpilochalcis andersoni, sp. n. ; a, head and 

 thorax ; b, hind coxa, femur and tibia. 



hind coxa, blackish brown. A faint spot outside the fore coxae, the mid coxae 

 entirely, and the hind coxae above, together with the trochanters, brown 

 or blackish brown ; teeth of the hind femora and inner superior edge of the 

 tibia, narrowly black ; all the tarsi are a little darker apically, and the fore and 

 mid tarsi, together with the tips of the tibiae, are yellowish red. The ground colour 

 of the abdomen is seen principally on the petiole and basal half ; towards the end 

 it becomes infuscated. Wings, especially the subcostal cell, and below the marginal, 

 a little brown ; the veins brownish black. The general colour of the body pubescence 

 is tawnv or oranoje. 



Head : breadth to depth as 7 : 5 (vertex to clypeal edge) or 7 : 6 (to apex of closed 

 mandibles) ; across the face, three times the diameter of an eye. Clypeus and labrum 

 straight, the latter with eight or nine bristles. Genae shining, finely striate ; malar 



