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a wider one at the apex, the tarsi fuscous, the basal two joints pale 

 at the base. S . 



Length 8 mm. 



Cape Colony. Cape Town. 



Head and mesonotum alutaceous, the rest of the thorax finely, 

 closely punctured. Malar space as long as the antennal scape. 

 Clypeus bluntly rounded ; the apex in the middle shining ; the sides 

 above foveate. Petiolar area small, narrow, twice longer than 

 wide ; the lateral areae large, triangular ; the apical keel broken on 

 the outer side, the area thus being made continuous with a smaller 

 triangular one below it ; spiracular area distinct beyond the stigma. 

 Apices of the third and fourth segments, their sides and the sides of 

 the fifth and sixth segments rufous. Wings hyaline, the stigma pale 

 fuscous, the nervures slightly darker ; the apical transverse cubital 

 nervure is almost, if not quite, obsolete ; the recurrent nervure is 

 interstitial. The base of the ventral surface black, the second and 

 third segments yellow, the other testaceous, marked with fuscous. 



LiMNEEIUM PERINGUEYI, Sp. noV. 



Black, the abdomen except the basal half of the first three 

 segments and the legs I'ufo-fulvous ; the mandibles, except at the apex 

 and the tegulae yellow, tinged with fulvous ; antennal scape reddish ; 

 palpi yellow. Wings hyahne, the nervures and stigma black. $ . 



Length 8 mm. ; terebra 3 mm. 



Cape Colony. Stellenbosch. 



Head and thorax closely, minutely punctured, covered with a 

 white pile ; the face with longer white pubescence. Apex of clypeus 

 bluntly rounded. Base of metanotum with only three areae ; the 

 basal small, square ; the lateral large, broader than long, the sides 

 straight, the apex rounded ; the spiracular area large, wide, distinct ; 

 the apex longer on the outer than on the inner side, bordered by a 

 stout keel ; the base of the metanotum, outside the areae, with an 

 oblique slope, distinctly depressed ; the basal slope with some stout 

 striae. Pedicle of areolet twice longer than the inner lower branch ; 

 the outer is very faint. 



LiMNEEIUM AREOLATUM, Sp. nOV. 



Black, the abdomen, except narrowly at the base rufo-fulvous ; the 

 legs of a brighter fulvous red colour ; the mandibles stramineous ; 

 the palpi fulvous ; the antennal scape rufo-fulvous ; the basal joints 



