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scutellum, and the postscutellum, ferruginous; a patch beneath the 
wings and the margin of the metathorax fringed with silvery-white 
pubescence; the legs ferruginous, the coxae and trochanters, except 
their extreme apex, and all the femora towards their base beneath 
black; the basal joint of the posterior tarsi fuscous on the outside. 
Abdomen ferruginous, the base black; the second segment has on each 
side an ovate yellow macula, and the third and fourth segments a short 
transverse line on each side at their basal margins. 
“ Male. Length 5^ lines.—Head and thorax black, the flagellum 
ferruginous, its two apical joints having a black spot above; the man¬ 
dibles yellow, their tips ferruginous; the labrum armed with a sharp 
tooth in the middle; the face covered with silvery-white pubescence. 
Thorax: the pubescence on the disk yellowish, that on the sides and 
beneath, hoary; the tubercles, tegulm, tibiae and tarsi, ferruginous ; 
the femora at their apex above, ferruginous; the wings subhyaline, 
and having a fuscous cloud at their apical margins. Abdomen ferru¬ 
ginous, its base black; the second segment has on each side a large 
ovate yellow macula, and the following segments a yellow line at their 
basal margins; the flfth and sixth have sometimes a transverse band; 
beneath, the intermediate segments have sometimes a transverse inter¬ 
rupted yellow line, and the three apical ones a central black dot.” 
STATED MEETING, December 14. 
President Bland in the Chair. 
Seventeen members present. 
REPORTS OE OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES. 
The Annual Report of the Recording Secretary was read, as 
follows :— 
