202 



Annah of tJ>? South African Museum. 



Flagellum white-banded ; hind calcaria black. 

 Metanotal areola elongate ; mesonotum subglabrous. 



Ce-tfr, sp nov. 



Disc of thorax mainly black ; stigma testaceous. 

 Postpetiole aciculate ; nervelet distinct. 

 Postpetiole punctate ; nervelet wanting. 

 Head nearly entirely testaceous or red. 

 Metathorax punctate, with distinct ar 

 Abdomen centrally distinctly black. 

 Postpetiole punctate-aciculate ; liind li-u-s red. 



Lucifer, sp. nov. 



rufidornatus, Cam. 



m<iri<li.xcutix, ( 'am. 



li roce/'h<il'i<f, ( 'a.m. 

 i'H.'c1inlht*, Moi-1. 



Postpetiole glabrous ; hind tibiae and tarsi black. 

 Abdomen not black-marked. 



Thorax black -marked. 



Dark red, black-marked ; cheeks long and narrow. 



Testaceous; Havous-markrd ; cheeks short, buccate. r>iil<il.iis, Mori. 

 Thorax pnl* 1 , not ]>l;u-k-m:irk<>d. . . t.^tm-i 's, sp. nov. 



Metathorax scabrous, with no definite a.rea.c. . m.linn.1 iihi.s, Mori. 



n>iiiinl iix Cum. 



n'.frsren.s, Mori. 



PLATYLABUS PHORCYS, sp. nov. 



rj only. A black species with white markings, and the thorax 

 except beneath, with two basal segments, brick-red. Extremely like 

 the next species (P. hemerythraeus}, but smaller and much more 

 slender with the second segment basally fulvidous and apically white, 

 not black-marked. The scutellum is equally convex and laterally 

 carinate, but the areola is half as long again as centrally broad, the 

 Face white with its base and an irregular central band black, the 

 clypeus white with its apex narrowly black ; the third segment is 

 laterally f ulvescent- white ; the anterior coxae entirely, and a large 

 discal mark on the hind ones, white. Length, 9 mm. 



Mfongosi in Zululand during May, 1916 (W. E. Jones'). 



9 . 



PLATYLABUS HEMEKYTHRAEUS, sp. nov. 

 A black species with white, markings, the thorax except 



beneath and in 9 basal segment dull brick-red. Head very narrow 

 behind the prominent eyes ; black with vertical orbits narrowly, the 

 jialpi and labrum white, <$ with the facial and two clypeal dots also 

 white; face and the apically truncate clypeus closely punctate and not 

 discreted. Antennae filiform and apically attenuate, centrally white- 

 banded, basally rufescent beneath and in $ apically subserrate. 

 Thorax not short ; sternum alone black ; notauli wanting, sternauli 

 distinct ; metathorax evenly punctate with complete areae and short 

 apophyses ; areola longer than broad, parallel-sided to its basal third, 

 whence the costulae are emitted ; basal area entire, spiracles sublinear. 



