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ment ; the sides of the second segment above broadly 

 fringed with pale golden hairs; the third segment entirely 

 covered with golden hairs ; the rest of the abdomen 

 with black stiff hairs ; the third and fourth ventral 

 segments covered with golden hairs ; the fifth and sixth 

 slightly fringed with golden hairs ; the apical segment 

 with a dense tuft of golden hairs at the end. 

 Length, 12 mm. 



6 much larger (17 mm.) has the head and thorax red; 

 the abdomen with the apex of the third and the fourth, 

 and the fifth segments entirely covered with golden 

 pubescence. Head distinctly narrower than the thorax, 

 coarsely rugosely punctured ; sparsely covered with long 

 black hair ; below the antennae the hairs are longer and 

 fulvous ; behind rounded at the sides, about one half the 

 length of the eyes ; the apical half of the mandibles black. 

 Antennae short, thick ; but tapering very considerably 

 towards the apex ; the basal two joints red ; the rest 

 black and almost bare ; the scape with a few long hairs ; 

 and strongly punctured above. Pro- and meso-notum 

 coarsely rugosely punctured ; thickly covered with long 

 black hairs ; scutellum flat, the sides and apex projecting; 

 covered with long black hairs, except at the apex, where 

 they are longer and pale fulvous in colour; this being 

 also the case with the post-scutellum. Median segment 

 strongly reticulated ; the apex roundly emarginate ; the 

 sides projecting into stout teeth. Pro- and meso-pleurae 

 coarsely rugosely punctured except the lower part of the 

 former. The fore legs are reddish like the thorax ; the 

 four hinder legs are entirely black, except the coxae at the 

 base ; they have the femora slightly, the tibiae and tarsi 

 densely covered with long pale golden hairs. Wings 

 fusco-violaceous ; the base much lighter, almost hyaline; 

 the basal and apical abscissae of the radius are oblique 

 and, at the base of the latter, it projects a little ; the first 



