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12 (13). Pleurse maculate with black, metanotum furrowed 



down the middle ; occiput with two black marks . . maculiceps. 



13 (12). Pleurae not maculate. 



14 (15). Black on vertex continued to a transverse mark on 



occiput, metanotum striated nigripalpis. 



15 (14). Black on vertex isolated, occiput immaculate, meta- 



notum smooth 5-maculattt>t. 



16 (11). Hind tibice not black. 



17 (18). Wings light-smoky fuscous, the nervures and stigma 



pale yellow tinctipennif!. 



18 (17). Wings uniformly dark fuscous. 



19(20). Head immaculate, the coxae and trochanters black .. loiigiccmdU. 



20 (19). Head maculate. 



21 (22). Abdomen smooth, the second to fourth segments with 



two foveas xexfoveatux. 



22 (21). Abdomen closely punctured, the segments not foveate. 



23 (24). Slender, 8 mm., the ovipositor not twice the length of 



the body, the occiput with a broad black mark, the 

 mesopleurae with a curved black line at the middle, at 

 the apex united to the black on the breast, the hind 

 trochanters black ; the keel on centre of basal half of 

 metanotum weak i<piloce2)h(du^. 



24 (23). Stout, at least 12 mm., occiput immaculate, the 



ovipositor three times longer than the body, mesopleurae 

 immaculate ; the hind trochanters immaculate ; the 

 keel on metanotum stout nifironotatu.i, Bd. 



V. nigronotatuH, Be., is in the collection from Stellenbosch. Of 

 the species with a long ovipositor I have described, it comes nearest 

 to V. longicaudis, which may be known from it by the immaculate 

 head and black coxae and trochanters. The more yellowish colour 

 of the body and the lighter coloux'ed wings separate V. tinctipcnnis 

 from it ; stictonotus and trimaculatus are separated, inter alia, by the 

 immaculate thorax. 



ViPIO TRIMACULATUS, Sp. nOV. 



Eeddish luteous, flagellum of antennae, mesosternum, and a mark, 

 transverse below, roundly narrowed above, on the middle of the 

 mesopleurae, black ; wings not very dark fuscous, the nervures, 

 costa, and apex of stigma black, the rest of stigma reddish yellow ; 

 the apical abscissa of radius as long as the basal two united, the 

 recurrent nervure received in the apex of the first cubital 

 cellule. $ . 



Length 9-12 mm. ; terebra 45 mm. 



Cape Colony. Calvinia Distr. 



Head smooth, shining; the hinder ocelli bordered behind by a 

 deep curved furrow ; the furrow running from them to the antennae 



