104 Annals of the Soiith African Mnscum 



straight, oblique. Apical nervures in hind wings almost, if not quite, 

 obsolete. Antennae shorter than the body, the third joint distinctly 

 longer than the fourth. Claws simple. Mandibles bidentate. Labrum 

 large, projecting. Palpi and trophi normal. 



The head in front is elongate, clearly longer than wide ; it is 

 somewhat rostriform, but not so much as in Bhynchcxetastes. The 

 characteristics of the genus are the campanulate abdominal petiole, 

 narrowed clearly at the base, large, hollowed labrum, hollowed centre 

 of metanotum, and semi-obsolete apical nervures in hind wings. The 

 transverse median nervure in the latter appears to be broken close 

 to the bottom. The ovipositor, too, is longer than in the normal 

 Banchini. The long ovipositor makes it look more like a Pimplid 

 than anything else. 



Allotheca ankulipes, sp. nov. 



Black, the labrum and middle of the antennae dark red ; legs red, 

 the coxae and the greater part of the trochanters black ; the outer 

 side of the four front tibia yellowish white ; the outer side of the 

 hinder white in the middle, the base and apex broadly black ; the 

 hind tarsi black ; the base of the first joint and of the second more 

 narrowly white ; the spurs white ; wings hyaline, the nervures and 

 stigma black ; tegulai white. ? . 



Length 9 mm. ; ovipositor 3 mm. 



Cape Colony. Neighbourhood of Cape Town. 



Head and thorax closely punctured, thickly covered with short 

 white pubescence. Scutellum roundly convex ; its apex more closely, 

 rugosely punctured than the base. Metanotum rugosely punctured ; 

 the centre transversely striated, more closely and finely above than 

 below ; the upper part of the pleurae more coarsely rugosely punc- 

 tured than the metanotum. Abdomen shining, smooth ; the apical 

 segments shortly pilose ; the sheaths of the ovipositor broad, densely 

 pilose, dilated at the apex. 



POBIZONINI. 



EICEENA, gen. nov. 



Wings without an areolet ; the transverse cubital nervure thick, 

 short, the recurrent nervure received shortly beyond it, the cubitus 

 sloping down to receive it ; transverse median nervure interstitial ; 

 the second cubital cellule closed. The apical nervures in hind wings 

 almost obsolete, only the radius being faintly indicated. Median 



