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Insects. 



griseous hair ; antennae nigro-piceous beneath, mandibles black, 

 ocelli placed in a curve. Thorax closely and deeply punctured, 

 slightly clothed above with brownish hair, and with paler beneath ; 

 the posterior tibiae densely clothed with white hair, slightly stained 

 with brown at their apex, first joint of posterior tarsi clothed with 

 black hair ; the remaining joints, as well as the whole of those of the 

 anterior and intermediate tarsi, rufous beneath. Abdomen globose, 

 very smooth and shining, the third and fourth segments have a white 

 marginal fascia, the first interrupted, the fifth segment has a brown 

 fascia. 



Macropis labiata. a. Male. b. Female, c. Face of the Male. d. Anterior leg of Female. 



Male. — (Length 4 lines). Black, antennae nearly as long as the 

 head and thorax, scape with a yellow spot at the apex beneath, the re- 

 maining joints testaceous beneath ; mandibles black, with a yellow 

 spot at the base, face below the antennae yellow. The thorax has a 

 thin fulvous pubescence above, and a thickish fringe round the apical 

 margin of the scutellum ; the metathorax, laterally, has a rather dense 

 pale pubescence ; the legs beneath have a thin scattered bright ful- 

 vous pubescence ; the anterior and intermediate tarsi above, are 

 clothed with bright pale fulvous hair ; all the claws rufous ; the pos- 

 terior femora and tibiae incrassate, the latter clothed with a short pale 

 fulvous pubescence, the tarsi beneath, with bright fulvous ; the abdo- 

 men globose very shining, rather deeply punctured, the margin of the 

 third segment has an interrupted pale fulvous fascia, the three follow- 

 ing have an entire fascia. 



