Descriptions of Neio Species of Parasitic Hymenoptera. 99 



of the flagellum of a dark red, obscured with fulvous. Wings hyahne, 

 the stigma and nervures fuscous. 5 . 



Length 5-6 mm. ; terebra 1 mm. 



Cape Colony. Neighbourhood of Cape Town. 



Head, pro- and mesothorax alutaceous ; the middle of mesopleurae 

 with an oblique, closely striated band in the middle ; the apex of the 

 propleurae more strongly punctured. Median segment more dis- 

 tinctly punctured; there are five areas on the base, besides the 

 petiolar area ; the areola is acutely pointed at the base, is twice 

 longer than wide, and is not closed at the apex ; there are two basal 

 lateral areas ; the apical longer and narrower than the basal ; there are 

 three apical ; the spiracular large ; in all there are ten arejE. Areolet 

 small ; the pedicel clearly longer than it ; it receives the recurrent 

 nervure in the middle. 



LiMNERIUM SESSILINERVIS, Sp. nOV. 



Black, the mandibles, palpi, under side of antennal scape, the four 

 anterior coxeb and trochanters pale stramineous-yellow ; the four 

 front femora, tibiae and tarsi yellowish-fulvous, the femora darker, 

 more fulvous coloured than the rest ; hind legs black, the apical joint 

 of the trochanters yellow, the tibiae broadly testaceous in the middle ; 

 the spurs white. Ventral keel testaceous. Wings hyaline, the 

 nervures and stigma black ; the areolet not appendiculated, the 

 nervures meeting in front ; the second transverse cubital nervure 

 largely bullated behind. J . 



Length 9 mm. ; terebra 3 mm. 



Cape Colony. Grahamstown. 



Head closely rugose, opaque ; the face and front thickly covered 

 with silvery pubescence ; the face and clypeus flat, not separated ; 

 the front depressed in the middle below. Temples roundly, distinctly 

 narrowed. Apex of clypeus distinctly, broadly rounded. Pro- and 

 mesothorax closely, distinctly punctured, thickly covered with short, 

 white pubescence ; the apex of propleurae striated in the middle ; 

 the median segment more strongly rugosely punctured. On the base 

 of the metanotum are two large semicircular areae ; a not very 

 distinct keel runs down from their middle to an indistinct one on the 

 sides of the apical slope ; the segment is densely covered with 

 fuscous pubescence. Abdominal petiole shining, dilated at the apex, 

 nearly as long as the hind femora, longer than the hind coxte and 

 trochanters united. 



The recurrent nervure is interstitial with the second transverse 



