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wider and shallower towards the apex. Pro- and mesopleurse im- 

 punctate, the furrow on the latter smooth, wnde ; the metapleurae 

 strongly and closely punctured above, almost impunctate below. 

 Basal three segments of abdomen strongly, closely, reticulated- 

 punctured ; the furrows bordering the centre of first wide and 

 marked with some transverse keels ; the suturiform articulation 

 wide, deep, and strongly crenulated ; the furrow on the third 

 segment is narrow and smooth ; the lateral depression on the base 

 of second is wide, oblique ; closely striated on the basal narrowed 

 part, with some longitudinal furrows on the wider apical ; the 

 oblique furrows on the sides of the third is deeper, but not so wide 

 and is more closely, strongly striated ; the basal half of the fourth 

 segment is closely punctured. 



Characteristic of this and the following species is the strongly 

 punctured metanotum. 



ViPIO STICTONOTUS, Sp. nov. 



Eufous, the antennae black ; the breast infuscated ; wings dark 

 fuscous ; the apical abscissa of radius as long as the basal two 

 united; the apex of the mesonotum with a large, squarish, coarsely 

 reticulated part in the centre ; its middle with a keel down the 

 centre ; the rest, except the apex of the lateral lobes, sparsely 

 punctured, as is also the scutellum. Metanotum closely, strongly 

 punctured, and with a distinct furrow down the middle ; the lower 

 part of metapleurai sparsely punctured. Basal four abdominal 

 segments coarsely rugosely punctured, the punctures i-unning into 

 reticulations, the sides of the second and third segments at the base 

 punctured ; the furrow^s wide, deep, crenulated. Apical abscissa of 

 radius slightly longer than the basal two united, Trophi testaceous ; 

 labial palpi black. 2 • 



Length 10 mm. ; terebra 20 mm. 



Southern Ehodesia. Sebakwe. 



This species closely resembles V. natalensis ; it may be known by 

 the black antennal scape, by the large reticulated space on the apex 

 of the mesonotum, and by the much shorter prothorax. 



ViPIO FUMIPENNIS, sp. nOV. 



Eufous, the basal half of the middle lobe of mesonotum, the 

 greater part of lateral, mesosternum, the fourth and following 

 segments of the abdomen, the coxse and basal joint of trochanters, 



