18 Annals of tlic South African Museum. 



STEPHANID^. 



FOENATOPUS, Smith. 



FOENATOPUS ALBOMACULATUS, Sp. IIOV. 



Black, the flagellum of antennae and tarsi testaceous, the base and 

 apex of abdominal petiole narrowly marked with white, a transverse 

 white spot on the base of the third segment ; hind femora with a 

 bluntly rounded tooth near the base, a longer, sharp one in the 

 middle, a similar one half-w^ay between it and the apex ; two shorter, 

 blunter ones between them in the middle, and a blunter, broader one 

 behind the apical large tooth. Wings short, hyaline, the nervurea 

 and stigma black. $ . 



Length, body and ovipositor, 12 mm. 



Southern Rhodesia. Sebakwe. 



Front closely, regularly reticulated; fore part of vertex opaque, 

 irregularly, weakly reticulated, the hinder opaque, irregularly, trans- 

 versely, closely striated, wnth an indistinct longitudinal furrow in 

 the middle ; the five spines stout, rufous below. Clypeus and a 

 large spot on the malar space whitish-testaceous ; base of mandibles 

 broadly rufous. The third and fourth joints of the antennae are 

 almost equal in length ; the following two are longer. Pronotum 

 not quite twice longer than the width at the apex, irregularly, trans- 

 versely striated on the narrowed basal part ; the dilated apical 

 weakly, irregularly reticulated. Mesonotum weakly, irregularly, 

 transversely reticulated at the base; the sides irregularly, obliquely 

 striated. Scutellum smooth, opaque. Metanotum with round, 

 clearly separated punctures. Metapleurae very minutely reticu- 

 lated. Hind coxae about three times longer than wide, opaque, 

 coarsely aciculated ; the base obscurely reticulated, the apex more 

 or less striated. 



The radial cellule is open at the apex, the radius becoming faint 

 towards the apex of the wing ; its base is thickened ; there is a lai-ge 

 whitish spot at the base of the stigma ; the cubitus is entii'ely oblite- 

 rated ; the transverse basal is distinct, as is also the transverse 

 median, with which it is interstitial ; at the latter is a discoidal 

 cellule, closed at the apex. Mesopleura not separated by a furrow. 

 Abdominal petiole nearly as long as the thorax; the second segment 

 becomes gradually wider towards the apex ; the others are broader. 

 The nervures are somewhat as in Stephanus insignis as figured by 

 Schletterer (Berl. Ent. Zeit., xxxiii., f. 4, Taf. 1), but with the 

 apical ones fainter, almost obsolete. Behind the head tubercles is a 

 raised, stout, red transverse keel. 



Allied to F. globicej^s, Enderlein, and F. insignis, Schlett. 



