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lateral lobes to the base of the scutellum, mesosternum, the basal 

 joint of the trochanters below and the hind tibiae and tarsi, black. 

 Wings dark fuscous ; the nervures and stigma black. $ . 



Length 12 mm. ; ovipositor 8 mm. 



Cape Colony. Spectakel ; Namaqualand Distr. 



Head and thorax smooth ; the face closely, but not strongly 

 punctured. Malar furrow not quite reaching to the apex, deep, 

 rounded and gradually, but not much, widened towards the apex. 

 Middle lobe of first abdominal segment stoutly, irregularly striated 

 from near the base ; the lateral lobes irregularly transversely 

 striated ; the second segment closely, longitudinally striated ; the 

 third segment closely, longitudinally striated to near the apex, inside 

 the lateral furrows and largely marked with black ; the fourth is 

 obscurely striated in the middle at the base ; both are marked with 

 black at the base. The furrows are deep, crenulated. 



The middle tarsi are blackish ; the anterior infuscated. 



ViPIO SEXFOVEATUS, Sp. nOV. 



Eed ; the antennae, occiput, front and vertex, three marks on the 

 raesonotum, the basal shorter and broader, a mark below the apex 

 of the fore wings and mesosternum, black. Wings fuscous, a 

 hyaline cloud in the first cubital cellule ; one outside the recurrent 

 nervure, the greater part of the apical basal half of the hind wings 

 and a longitudinal one at the stigma. Palpi testaceous, covered with 

 white hair. x\pex of mandibles black, c? . 



Length 10 inm. 



Cape Colony. Neighbourhood of Cape Town. 



Face closely, distinctly punctured, sparsely covered with black 

 hair; a black keel below the antennae ; a smooth plate, dilated before 

 the apex, narrowed above, below. Abdomen smooth, shining, im- 

 punctate ; central area of first segment rounded at the apex, the 

 basal half gradually narrowed ; keel on second segment gradually 

 narrowed from the base to the apex, it reaching to the base of the 

 apical third ; the lateral oblique furrows are deep ; on either side of 

 the apex of the keel is a fovea, longer than wide ; there is a shorter, 

 less distinct keel on the base of the following two segments, with a 

 rounded fovea on either side. Legs imniaculate, coloured like the 

 body. Metanotum impunctate. 



This species differs from the other Cape forms I have seen in the 

 front and vertex being entirely black. Characteristic, too, are the six 

 distinct fovese on the back of the abdomen. 



