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body. Legs slender ; the middle tibiae with two spurs ; the claws 

 pectinated at the base. The second abdominal segment is closely 

 longitudinally striated ; its spiracles before the middle. 



There is no malar furrow ; the areola is closed at the base and 

 apex ; there is a well-defined, deeply depressed petiolar area. Hind 

 metatarsus as long as the following three united; the apices of the 

 joints spinose ; the last much longer than the fourth. Transverse 

 median nervure in hind wings broken shortly below the middle, the 

 recurrent nervure is largely bullated in front, the subdiscoidal 

 nervure issues from above the middle of the recurrent nervure. 

 AntennsB shorter than the body. The joints of the hind tarsi are 

 of equal thickness ; the metatarsus is more than half the length of 

 the tibiae. 



Comes near to Zaporus, Foer. It looks more like a Pimplid than 

 an Ophionid. 



=■' PiMPLOMORPHA TRILINEATA, Sp. nOV. 



Head and thorax yellowish testaceous, the abdomen rufous, the 

 sides and ventral surface tinged with yellow ; the antennae, a square 

 mark on and below the ocellar region, two marks on the lower part 

 of the occiput, three large marks on the mesonotum, almost the basal 

 half of the metanotum, the mark dilated laterally at the base, a mark 

 on the apex of the mesopleurse near the top, the middle of the meta- 

 pleurae at the base and the mesosternum, black. Legs fulvous, the 

 tibiae and tarsi tinged with yellow. Wings hyaline, the stigma and 

 nervures black. $ . 



Length 12 mm. ; terebra 9 mm. 



Transvaal. 



Face closely, the upper part of the clypeus sparsely, the front and 

 vertex more closely and strongly punctured ; the parts immediately 

 above the antennae striated ; the parts surrounding the black on the 

 front and vertex and the greater part of the vertex are rufous. 

 Thorax closely punctured ; the metanotum more closely and 

 strongly than the rest, except the base of the areola, which is 

 smooth. Antennae over 40-jointed, the third and fourth joints 

 equal in length. 



LIMNEEIUM, Ashm. 



The following species may be separated thus : — 



1 (2). Areolet sessile ; the abdomen entirely black .. ,, sessilinervis. 



2 (1). Areoletappendiculated, the abdomen not entirely black. 



