56 CATALOGUE OF 



Head, with the frontal orbits, fulvous ; cheeks, mouth and face of 

 the same colour, the latter with a quadrate or slightly oblong* black 

 patch on each side ; tip of the mandibles black. Antennae filiform, 

 little more than half the length of the body, pale ferruginous or testa- 

 ceous, underneath more obscure towards the apex ; from the apex of 

 the sixth to the tenth joints white above. Thorax gibbous. Meta- 

 thorax rounded, nearly smooth. Wings with a smoky-brown patch 

 through the stigma, before which, on the costa, is a much lighter spot ; 

 their base yellowish ; squamula brown. Legs: coxae ferruginous or 

 rufous ; the middle pair black at the base; the hinder ones black above ; 

 the base of all the trochanters dusky ; femora and tibiae rufous ; the 

 former with a dusky undefined line on the upper edge ; the hinder 

 pair wholly rufous ; tarsi dusky red. Abdomen red ; first segment 

 longer than broad, with a dorsal channel ; fifth to the seventh 

 cloudy ; the apex of the last white. Aculeus two-thirds the length 

 of the abdomen. Length 4$ lines. 



47. Cryptus tumidus, n. s. 



Capite transversa, turnido. Segmentis 1 — 3 rufis ; sequentibus 

 nigricantibus summo apice ferrugineis. Pedibus rufis ; coxis 

 nigris. Aculeo fere longitudine corporis. 



Head transverse, of equal breadth, the crown convex ; eyes, 

 seen from above, small, laterally parallel with the cheeks and occi- 

 put. Antennae beneath ferruginous, from the seventh to the tenth 

 joints above white, the remainder black. Thorax somewhat gib- 

 bous. Metathorax with two transverse sinuated ridges. Wings 

 hyaline, with a faint cloud through the stigma, which is pitchy ; 

 areolet 5-angular. Legs slender, red ; coxae black, their apex fer- 

 ruginous ; trochanters blackish ; apophyses reddish. Abdomen elon- 

 gate, oval; first segment beyond the petiole quadrate, smooth, with 

 a flat dorsal channel ; second and third red ; fourth and fifth pitchy 

 black ; the apical margins ferruginous. Aculeus nearly the length 

 of the body. Length 4 lines. 



In Mr. Desvignes' collection. 



48. CSYPTUS FUMIPENNIS. B. M. 



Cryptus fumipennis, Grav. ii. 601, 120. 



49. Cryptus peregkinatoe. B. M. 

 Cryptus peregrinator, Grav. ii. 605, 123. 





