Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3: Zoology — John Shaqi
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Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3: Zoology
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_Male._ Length 6-1/2 lines. Black; strongly punctured and shining; the
clypeus and a spot above yellow; a narrow abbreviated line behind the
eyes, a minute spot in their emargination, and the tips of the mandibles
orange-red; the flagellum fulvous beneath. Thorax: the anterior and
posterior margin of the prothorax, the tubercles, and a spot on the
tegulae behind, a line on the postscutellum and the legs, orange-red, the
coxae black, and the tarsi dusky; the wings slightly brownish with a
violet iridescence. Abdomen immaculate, with a minute spot on the
posterior border of the petiole; the third and following segments with a
fine cinereous pile.
_Hab._ Celebes.
Genus ODYNERUS, _Latr._
1. Odynerus ovalis, _Sauss. Mon. Guepes Sol._ 215. 122. t. 19. f. 4.
_Hab._ India, China, Celebes.
2. ODYNERUS (ANCISTROCERUS) CLAVICORNIS. _O._ niger, flavo varius;
capite thoraceque fortiter, abdomine delicatule punctatis, antennis
clavatis.
_Male._ Length 4-1/2 lines. Black; head and thorax strongly punctured
and shining; a spot on the mandibles, the labrum, the clypeus, a spot
above, the scape in front, a line in the emargination of the eyes and a
spot behind them, yellow; the flagellum broadly clavate, the joints
transverse, the apex of the club and the terminal hook reddish-yellow,
the thickened part of the club concave beneath, the hook bent into the
cavity. Thorax: two spots on the anterior margin, a spot on the tegulae
in front, and the legs, reddish-yellow, the coxae dusky; the metathorax
coarsely rugose and deeply concave-truncate. Abdomen: the first segment
with a transverse carina at its base, in front of which is an
irregularly cut deep transverse channel forming a second carina in front
of the groove; the segments finely punctured, the first and second
segments with a yellow posterior border, the fourth and following
segments rufo-piceous.
_Hab._ Celebes.
3. ODYNERUS (LEIONOTUS) INSULARIS. _O._ niger, flavo et aurantio
variegatus; abdominis basi ferruginea.
_Male._ Length 6 lines. Black; the head and thorax strongly punctured;
the mandibles, clypeus, a line above extending to the anterior ocellus,
the emargination of the eyes, a spot at their vertex and a line at their
outer orbits, yellow; the antennae reddish-yellow, with the scape pale
yellow in front and a narrow fuscous line above; the yellow marking more
or less stained orange. Thorax: the prothorax orange, its anterior
border, the tubercles, tegulae, two spots on the scutellum and
postscutellum, the lateral margins of the metathorax and the legs,
yellow, the latter with reddish stains; wings subhyaline, the superior
pair with a fuscous cloud at their apex. The base of the abdomen and a
large macula on each side of the second segment ferruginous; the apical
margin of the segments with a yellow border, the first and second with a
minute notch in the middle; the first and second segments entirely
ferruginous beneath.
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