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dozen apical joints excavate beneath ; protliorax, meso-pleurae and 

 -sternum, and metatliorax except a discal mark, black; notauli and 

 metauotal basal sulcus wanting ; all carinae obsolete, costulae wanting, 

 areola subtransverse and only basally carinate. Scutellum and post- 

 scutellum glabrous, glittering and slightly convex. Abdomen dull, 

 closely punctate, castaueous, and elongate-ovate with only base of the 

 fourth and fifth segments indefinitely black ; postpetiole broad, finely 

 aciculate-punctate and strongly bicarinate; gastrocoeli deeply impressed 

 and fully as broad as the aciculate intervening space; anus obtuse 

 and smoother. Legs fulvidons with coxae and trochanters partly 

 nigrescent; hind claws small. Wings hyaline with the stigma and 

 nervures deep brunneous ; areolet broad above. Length, 11 mm. 

 The short and setigerous flagellum combined with indefinitely dark 

 red and apically obtuse body lend this species much more the appear- 

 ance of the Indian Protictmeumon (Amllyjoppa) rnficeps, Cam., than 

 any species of the present genus with which I am acquainted. 

 The type was captured at Utrecht in Natal during 1907. 



AMBLYTELES, Wesm. 



Nouv. Mem. 1844, p. 111. 



Thorns. Opusc. Ent. 1894, p. 2090. 



AMBLYTELES AUXIFER, Tosq. 

 Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1896, p. 82, ? . 



? only. A stout black species with dull red head, mesonotum, 

 petiole and legs. Head red and not constricted behind eyes, closely 

 punctate with the clypeus more sparsely and as long as the elevated 

 epistoma, its sides and the maudibular apices black. Antennae stout 

 and filiform with their apices strongly attenuate, nigrescent with scape 

 red and (in these examples) no pale central flagellar band. Thorax 

 dull and discally deplanate, very finely punctate with no notauli ; 

 metanotum coriaceous with longitudinal carinae entire though weak ; 

 areola not smoother, subquadrate with sides a little curved ; petiolar 

 area scabrous with basal carina strong and apophyses distinct though 

 small. Scutellum black, subglabrous and glittering, hardly convex. 

 Abdomen elongate-ovate and black with only the basal segment 

 entirely, and disc of the 7th, somewhat clear red ; postpetiole broad 

 and deplauate with only a few distinct discal punctures, carinae 

 obsolete; gastrocoeli small and much narrower than the simple 

 intervening space ; second and third ventral segments plicate ; 

 n JPPJg ium extending to the nitidulous anus, terebra red. Leo-g 



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