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on the top of the outer orbits, the antennal scape and basal three of 
four joints of the flagellum, prothorax, tegulae, slightly more than the 
basal half of the scutellum, the mark with an incision in the centre or 
the apex, an interrupted line on the post-scutellum, the metathorax, 
except the central furrow, the tubercles, the first abdominal segment 
exoept at the base and apex, and a more obscure spot on the sides of the 
second, red ; a narrow line on the top of the first abdominal segment ; 
a wider one, dilated at the sides, on the second, and a triangular spot on 
the sides of the second ventral, yellow ; legs red ; wings fuscous-hyaline, 
suffused with a deeper violaceous tint in front. Female. 
Length, 9 mm. 
Rietfontein. August. 
Clypeus one-half longer than wide, sparsely, weakly punctured, the 
apex with a broad, rounded incision ; front, vertex, and thorax closely, 
strongly punctured ; base of thorax transverse, the apex broadly rounded, 
densely covered with a white woolly pile ; sides of post-scutellum tuber - 
culate at the base, the apex smooth, transverse ; first abdominal segment 
triangular, becoming gradually widened from the base to the apex, which 
is, as is also the apex of the second, weakly, sparsely punctured ; as are 
also, if any thing more strongly, the apices of the third and fourth. 
Ody nevus spoliatus , sp. n. 
Black ; red are the clypeus, mandibles except the inner edge, a large 
triangular mark, wider than long, its apex rounded and with a slight 
rounded incision, on the vertex, the lower part of the eye incision, broadly 
above, the outer orbits, the line above continued to the ocelli and obliquely 
narrowed, the pronotum to near the middle of the pleurae, tegulae, 
scutellums, the metanotum except in the centre, the red extending on to 
the pleurae, a spot on the mesopleurae between the tubercles and the 
furrow, its apex with two oblique slopes, the top one shorter than the 
lower ; immediately below it is a longer and narrower oblique line ; 
abdomen black ; on the sides of the first abdominal segment is a large 
oblique mark, transverse, narrower on the outer than on the inner side, 
a similar, but larger mark on the sides of the second, wider on the inner 
than on the outer side, the outer side being transverse, through reaching to 
the outer edge, the fourth and fifth are red, black at the base, the sixth 
is entirely red ; the ventral segments are red, except the base of the fourth 
and fifth ; the first segment narrowly and faintly above, the second and 
third all round are yellow ; wings fulvous hyaline ; the radial cellule 
smoky ; the costa and stigma fulvous ; the nervures black, the basal 
paler. Female. 
Length, 14 mm. 
Kranspoort. December. 
Clypeus as broad as it is long, its apex depressed in the middle, almost 
shortly bidentate, sparsely, weakly punctured ; the front, vertex, and 
thorax closely, somewhat strongly punctured ; apex of post-scutellum 
broadly rounded ; sides of metanotum broadly rounded and densely 
covered with longish white pubescence ; abdomen smooth, the basal 
segment is shortly pedunculated ; the second segment is as wide as long. 
