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distinctly denned ; the clypeus, labrum, a narrow line on the lower 

 part of the face above the clypeus united to a large mark on the 

 inner orbits which is triangularly incised above, a narrow line on 

 the under side of the antennal scape and the basal half of the 

 mandibles, yellow. The ventral segments are testaceous, narrowly 

 yellow on the apex ; the apices of the apical three slightly incised. 



Allied to P. coccina, Kl., and fallax, Sm. Col. Bingham informs 

 me that the species is not in the British Museum Collection. 



PODALARIUS PALLIDICINCTUS, Sp. nOV. 



Black ; the lower part of the face, the part on the sides roundly 

 incised above, clypeus, except for a curved black line along the upper 

 half, the line narrowed above and below ; labrum yellow, a black 

 mark on either side of the top, the mandibles, except at the apex, 

 yellow ; the apices of the abdominal segments broadly banded with 

 pale yellow. Wings hyaline, the apex slightly infuscated. Head 

 and thorax thickly covered with long white hair ; the hair on the top 

 of thorax broadly tipped with black. The hair on the under side of 

 the four posterior tarsi rufous. Scape of antennae broadly yellow 

 below. Tegulse pale testaceous. $ . 



Length 10 mm. 



Cape Colony. Stellenbosch ; Grahamstown ? 



Clypeus sparsely, the labrum closely punctured ; the apex of the 

 latter distinctly roundly projecting. Front and vertex closely, but 

 not strongly punctured ; a smooth line between the ocelli. The 

 yellow abdominal bands are thickly covered with long white pubes- 

 cence ; the hair on the base of the segments sparser and darker ; 

 anal spines longish, stout. Ventral surface broadly brownish in the 

 middle. 



What I take to be the female is in the Collection of the Albany 

 Museum. It has the apices of the abdominal segments pale yellow 

 as in the male, but covered by fulvous instead of white pubescence ; 

 the second cubital cellule as in it is distinctly shorter than the third 

 in front ; the apex of the clypeus is pale yellow and there is a pale 

 yellow mark on the base of the mandibles ; the ventral scopa is 

 white and the sides and apices of the segments are testaceous ; the 

 hair on the base of the tarsal basal joint is rufous as in the male. 

 Its length is 12 mm. It was taken in June by Dr. Penther. 



PODALARIUS SPILOSTOMUS, Sp. nOV. 



Black ; the head and thorax densely covered with long cinereous 

 hair, which takes a fulvous hue on the upper parts ; the basal four 



