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the sides extending on to the base of the scutellum, mesosternum, 

 fore coxae below, the foui' hinder, the base of trochanters below and the 

 fourth and following segments of the abdomen, black. "Wings hyaline, 

 tinged with yellow, their apex smoky ; the stigma pale yellow, its 

 base and nervures fuscous. Scape of antennae blackish, the flagellum 

 fuscous. Trophi testaceous ; the labial palpi fuscous, testaceous at 

 the base and apex. ^ . 



Length 10 mm. 



Cape Colony. 



Head thickly covered with pale hair, smooth ; the lower part of 

 malar space punctured ; indistinctly furrowed down the centre. 

 Thorax smooth ; the median segment thickly covered with white 

 hair, weakly punctured. Middle of first abdominal segment closely 

 covered with raised rugosities, some of them pitted ; the second and 

 third segments with similar rugosities, but more widely separated, 

 especially on the third. Suturiform articulation wide, deep, crenu- 

 lated ; the apical segments thickly covered with white pubescence. 



ViPio MACULiCEPS, sp. nov. 



Red; the antennae, trophi and palpi, ocelli, two large marks on 

 the centre of the vertex, a mark, broader than long, rounded and 

 narrowed behind, on the base of the central lobe of mesonotum, a 

 broad line on the lateral, extending behind on to the sides of the 

 scutellum, a broad line on the lower part of the propleurae ; a mark, 

 broad at the base, gradually narrowed behind, on the middle of the 

 mesopleurae, the mesosternum, the mark extended on to the apex of 

 the mesopleurae, as a square projection ; a large mark on the lower 

 side of the coxae and the four hind tibiae and tarsi, black. Wings 

 dark fuscous, the nervures and stigma black. $ . 



Liength 9 mm. ; ovipositor 10 mm. 



Cape Colony. Malmesbury Distr. 



Face closely and strongly punctured, the middle less strongly, 

 more finely and irregularly. Malar furrow wide, shallow, finely 

 punctured. Thorax shining, smooth ; there is a short, deep, longi- 

 tudinal furrow on the apex of the mesonotum ; the part on either 

 side of this is sparsely, weakly punctured. Base of metanotum 

 smooth, the rest longitudinally striated and punctured ; there is a 

 distinct, moderately wide furrow down the middle. Apical half of 

 metapleuras aciculated, covered with long, black pubescence. Basal 

 four segments of abdomen closely, longitudinally striated ; the pai't 

 on the sides behind the obhque furrows and the apices of the third 

 and fourth segments narrowly, smooth. 



