Descriptions of New Species of Parasitic Hymenoptera. 75 



Antennae stout ; the scape shining, sparsely covered with black 

 hair ; it is not quite three times the length of the width of the apex ; 

 the third joint is slightly longer than the fourth. Front and vertex 

 smooth ; the temples longer than the eyes, rounded behind. Middle 

 of face smooth, clearly separated; the sides sparsely punctured. 

 Mandibular teeth black. Parapsidal furrows distinct only on the 

 basal slope. Abdomen not quite so long as the head and thorax 

 united ; smooth, bare, shining ; the area on the second segment 

 large, wide, reaching to shortly beyond the middle of the segment, 

 bordered by wide, deep furrows ; its apex not narrowed to a point, 

 transverse, half the width of the base. Second abscissa of radius 

 slightly longer than the third; recurrent nervure received in first 

 cubital cellule ; second cubital cellule about three times longer than 

 wide ; the radius issues from shortly beyond the middle, thereby 

 differing from Exothecns as defined by Sz^pligeti, Genera Ins. 

 Braconidae, i., 50, in which it is inserted behind the middle. Suturi- 

 form articulation narrow, smooth ; it is the only transverse furrow. 

 The antennae are shorter, stouter than usual, and not narrowed at 

 the apex. 



EXOTHECUS CANALICULATUS, Cam. 



Annals Albany Museum, i., 167. 



This species is in the collection from Mossel Bay and East London 

 in Cape Colony and from Durban in Natal. 



The size of the yellowish-hyaline spots at the transverse cubital 

 nervures varies ; on the second it may extend into the radial and 

 discoidal cellules. The ovipositor is 16 mm. long. The $ appears 

 to be, in collections at least, rare compared with the <? . E. tibialis, 

 Cam. (Eecords Alb. Mus., i., 156), is probably only a small form. 



TELEEDA, gen. nov. 



Abdomen closely striated all over ; the basal segment short, sessile, 

 broader than long; the second segment with a large triangular area; 

 all the segments separated by deep, crenulated furrows ; the second 

 furrow without a lateral branch ; there are seven segments. Meta- 

 notum punctured, deeply furrowed down the middle. Parapsidal 

 furrows distinct ; there is no pleural furrow ; apex of mesonotum 

 with a large squarish depression in the middle, commencing at the 

 end of the basal lobe. Temples as long as the eyes, rounded behind. 

 Eadial cellule long, reaching to the end of the wing, commencing at 

 the middle of the stigma ; it is not quite so long as the basal two 



