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glabrous, the joints slightly arcuate underneath ; head broader than 

 long on the vertex, and the genae very short, deeply foveolate and 

 clothed with a long greyish pubescence; prothorax of the normal 

 shape, somewhat closely punctate and hairy ; first abdominal seg- 

 ment deeply pitted, second also deeply pitted but not strigillate 

 third sparsely punctate, the punctures somewhat smooth, no trace of 

 strigillate strioles, the whole abdomen is densely hairy, the pygidium 

 is punctulate, the terminal spine red. Wings hyaline but slightly 

 lacteous, the nervures and the stigma fulvescent, tibial spurs 

 white. 



Length 5^ mm.; expanse of wings 8 mm. 



Hah. Bushmanland (Henkries), E. M. Lightfoot. 



Easily recognized by the great length of the antennae and the non- 

 strigillate abdominal segments. 



APTEROGYXA BULAWAYONA, sp. n. 



3 . Totally black, antennae sub-ferruginous ; head quadrate, tuber- 

 culate on the posterior angle, closely foveolate and clothed with 

 dense greyish hairs longer and silky white laterally ; prothorax of the 

 normal shape covered with sub-foveolate punctures with narrow 

 smooth walls in the anterior part, but deeper and very irregular on 

 the metanoturn, the whole prothorax covered with long greyish 

 setae ; abdomen covered with somewhat sparse, greyish hairs, but 

 without any pubescent band at the apex of the joints, the first and 

 second are covered with large, ovate foveae closely set, the third one 

 is strigillate from apex to base, the intervals being more distinctly 

 elongate ovate in the basal part, apical hook black ; wings hyaline, 

 nervures very pallid, stigma brownish, tibial spurs white. 



Length 7 mm. ; expanse of wings 10 mm. 



Hab. Southern Khodesia (Bulawayo), G. Arnold. 



GEN. METHOCA, Latr. 



METHOCA MOSUTOAXA, sp. n. 



$ . Black, with the mandibles, the palps, the three basal joints of 

 the antennae, the tibiae and the basal joint of the tarsi ferruginous 

 red. Head opaque, the face very finely striolate logitudinally in the 

 centre, labrum not distinctly punctate, beset with long whitish setae, 

 lateral space in front of the eyes densely pubescent, the pubescence 

 silvery ; eyes large very briefly setose, background of vertex 

 extremely finely aciculate longitudinally and covered with round, 



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