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it black, the remaming segments of the aMomeM are black, with a wide 

 Wue strip© slopinfr slightly upwarils on each mh ; legs black, alt the 

 tihiie with a wUlo blue KtriiKJou the outaiUe* wiugsdark purplish brown. 

 (2128. Mara.) 



All it'll to C, uitidnh, Fabr., a species common in Amltoina, Austraha, 

 &c., but uppjirently distinct, 

 XTLOt'orA FOKBESii, KitUy, loc, cit- 

 Long- corp. 10 If a. 



Mitk, Thickly eiothed abovfi with olive-green pubescence, as in the 

 male of A', n^duati^, Linn., or of X bryorum, Fabr. ; antennas blftck above 

 and fwlvoiis Iwtieath, the hairs ou the middle of the under surface of the 

 body^ esjiecially towards the tip, th*w on the lower fwirt of the face, and 

 the Tery long hairs uu the tai"si ahailiti^ into fnlva^forrnginous : wings 

 brownish hyuliJic, with ft slight violet ahwle, and marked m all the cells 

 along the liiiid margin with numeTOUs black data, as in the allied species: 

 prolioscis black, probabty Kxldish witlun and at the base when extended. 

 (1983, Lamt» 



Feoitdr. Bliick, thickly clothed with black imirs, and very thickly and 

 finely punctured^ except on the middle of the niesothorax, which is 

 e.ui(K)th an«i ^?hiu^l^^^, ami has a «liort longitudina} furrow iu Iront; head 

 clotlied with hriglit yellow ptiliescencu, that ou the ftice thinner and 

 paler; wings with u briglit green iridescence, purplish along the veuis 

 tOA'ards the base; apical half of the antenntT pale beneath; proboscis 

 mostly retldiJ^h ; under surface of iKHiy thickly puiichirml, but with 

 some bare spaces along the middle line. (195^, Lwrat; WUK Staru.) 



Closely allietl to X. eormiata. Smith, from Kaioa; but in the female of 

 that species (which doubtless hi»s a male similar to that of X./orbenii) the 

 wings have a bright riolet instead of a green iridescence. 



YESriDiB. 



PousTES EXTBANKCB, Kirby, loc. cit. 

 Long, corp, 5 lin. 



/'emti/e. HVad and thoraa: bright chestnut, cljT]6ns pentagonal, bright 

 yellow; tnaudiblcy with a yetlow mark on each side: antenn© dull 

 yellow ; the scape, second joint, and upfwr jmrt of the third re<Mish ; 

 prothorax narrowly edged with yellow in front and behind ; Bcutellam 

 with a transverse yellow line; metathorax edged with yellow on the 

 sides; alidomeu with the first joint yellow, with a broad red stripe, 

 bordered behintl with black, extending for two-thirds of its lenpth alxjve, 

 second and third eepnents blackish browTi, the third bordered with 

 yellow iK^hind, the fourth yellow bordered with blackish brown in front 

 and behitid, and the fifth and sixth dull reddish; wings brownish 

 hyaline, with reddish-brown nervures, yellow stigma, and brown borders. 

 {m^, Miu-u.) 



Closely allied to P. stigma, Fabr. from India, Ccram, and Celebes. 



SCOLIIDJB. 



DiELis la.rate;ksis, Kirby, loc. cit. 

 Long. corp. 104 lin. 



F^m^h. Black ; sides of thorax and abdomen, and legs clothed with 

 black hair ; face black ; clypeus very finely punctured above, and more 

 coarsely on its lower edge, and borderetl at the sides and l>elow with 

 yellow ' pubescence ; nifindibles pitchy; thorax an<i al>domen finely 

 punctured, much more densely than elsewhere on the sides of the abdo- 



