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_Female._ Length 6 lines. Black; the head and thorax very closely
punctured and opake, the head slightly shining on the vertex; the
antennae beneath and the apical half of the mandibles ferruginous, the
latter black at their tips; the clypeus yellow at the sides, and
coarsely rugose in front. Thorax: the metathorax coarsely
longitudinally rugose, with cinereous pubescence at the sides; the
antennae and intermediate tibiae, the tarsi, and articulations of the legs
reddish-yellow; wings subhyaline, with a fuscous cloud in the marginal
cell, which passes beyond to the apex of the wings; the nervures
fusco-ferruginous; the tegulae ferruginous. Abdomen shining, covered with
a thin, fine, cinereous pile, and with the margins of the segments
constricted; the apical margins of the segments with narrow yellow
fasciae, that on the fourth abbreviated on each side, on the fifth it is
obsolete; beneath, the second segment is opake, finely punctured, and
pilose; the following segments smooth, shining, and with five scattered
punctures.
The _Male_ strongly resembles the female, but is smaller and less
variegated with yellow; the face covered with silvery down; the scape
and base of the flagellum ferruginous beneath; the clypeus yellow,
except its extreme base. The thorax black, with the legs rufo-piceous;
the tibiae and tarsi pale ferruginous, variegated with yellow; the sides
of the thorax beneath the wings longitudinally striated in both sexes,
most conspicuously so in the male. The abdomen with three narrow
interrupted fasciae.
_Hab._ Aru.
2. GORYTES VAGUS. _G._ niger; clypeo maculis duabus flavis notato;
postscutello et segmentis primo et secundo fascia apicali flavis, fascia
in segmento primo subinterrupto.
_Female._ Length 6 lines. Black; the head finely punctured and shining;
the anterior margin of the clypeus emarginate in the middle, and more
deeply so on each side; on each side of the clypeus, at its base, is an
oblique yellow spot, and anteriorly it is roughly punctured; the
mandibles roughened at their base, their apical half smooth, shining,
and ferruginous, with their apex black. Thorax subopake, very closely
punctured, and slightly shining; the metathorax coarsely longitudinally
rugose-striate; the postscutellum yellow; wings subhyaline and
iridescent, the nervures fusco-ferruginous; a dark fuscous cloud
occupies the marginal cell. Abdomen smooth and shining, with a slightly
interrupted fascia a little before the apical margin of the basal
segment; the second segment has a fascia at its apical margin; both are
yellowish white; the first is gradually widened towards the sides of the
segment, the second abruptly widened, with the angle of the widened
portion pointed inwards; beneath the abdomen is glossy, with the basal
segment closely punctured and subopake; the margins of abdominal
segments slightly constricted.
_Hab._ Key Island.
Gen. TRYPOXYLON, _Latr._
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