226 Annals of the South African Museum. 



mesonotal vittae, apices of third to fifth segments centrally, venter and 

 a dot beneath anterior coxae, flavous ; legs, and marks near apices of 

 second and third segments, i-nore or less dark rufesceut. Head dull 

 and distinctly punctate with only scrobes glabrous ; face not convex, 

 its apex discreted from the reflexed and apically rounded clypeus 5 

 juxta-anteuual orbits elevated. Antennae not pale-marked. Thorax 

 dull and somewhat deeply punctate throughout, with obsolete notauli ; 

 nietathoracic areae entire ; basal area narrow, areola large and sub- 

 parallel-sided, twice longer than broad and emitting strong costulae 

 from its basal third. Scutellum deplanate, not margined, as deeply 

 punctate as the thorax. Abdomen finely shagreened with second 

 segment aciculate throughout, its thyridii basal ; terebra deflexed, 

 black and longer (5f mm.) than whole abdomen (5 mm.). Wings 

 hyaline with stout nervures ; stigma broad and black ; base of apical 

 abscissa of radius strongly sinuate ; brachial cell very narrow ; nervellus 

 neither geuiculate nor intercepted. Length, 8 mm. 



The type is labelled: ;t Hottentots' Holland Mts. 4000 feet. 

 Caledon, Cape, Barnard, 1916." 



TKIJJK CAMPOPLEGIDES. 



XANTHOCAMPOPLEX, Mori.* 

 Fauna India, Ichn. i, 1913, p. 445. 



XANTHOCAMPOPLEX FLAVESCENS, sp. nov. 



c $ . A dull and very slender species, the wings hyaline and body 

 clear Havous with only the mandibular apices, ocellar region, flagellum 

 and disc of scape, terebral valvulae, hind tarsi and apices of the 

 anterior, black ; central mesonotal vitta nigrescent and in $ extending 

 to scutellum, sometimes with a pale bruuueous one on either side. 

 Metathorax shagreened with a curved basal transcarina touching the 

 base centrally, to which the parallel- sided and trans-striolate petiolar 

 area extends ; spiracles linear. Basal segment glabrous, gradually 

 explanate apically and longer than the terebra. Discal spines of the 

 hind tibiae strong ; tarsi pectinate. Wings somewhat narrow, with 

 tegulae and stigma fiavidous ; lower basal nervure postf urcal ; radius 



* XANTHOCA.MPOPLEX NIGROMACULATUS is the only described species 

 Zachresta (sic) nigroma,culata, Cam. Aim. Nat. Hist, xx, 1907, p. 13, $ 

 Xanthocampoplex orientalis, Mori. Faun. India, Ichn. i, 1913, p. 445, $ $ . Th 

 Berlin Museum possesses this species from Sumatra and twenty-three speci- 

 mens, comprising both sexes, which were collected by Col. Bingham in Sikkim 



