Descriptions of Neiv Species of Parasitic Hymenoptera. 19 



EVANIID^. 



EVANIA, Lin. 



The species of this genus in the collection may be separated 

 thus : — 



II. Face and cheeks not striated, thorax sparsely punctured ; 

 the spurs black. 



1. Legs, abdomen, and stigma fuscous; the alar nervures 



pale iieringueyi. 



2. Legs, abdomen, stigma, and nervures black. 

 Antennae black ; the face not furrowed laterally ; length 



6-7 mm appendigaster, Jj. 



Antennae for the greater part rufous ; the face furrowed 



laterally meridionalis. 



h. Face and cheeks striated strongly ; thorax strongly, closely 



punctured, the spurs fulvous fulvispina. 



EVANIA APPENDIG ASTER, Lin. 



Cape Town. Durban. A cosmopolitan parasite in egg-cases of 

 cockroaches. 



EvANIA PEEINGUEYI, Sp. nOV. 



Black, the flagellum of antennae, pleurae, base of legs and abdomen 

 tinged with fuscous ; wings hyaline, very iridescent, the stigma and 

 nervures fuscous, the stigma darker coloured. ? and J . 



Length 7 mm. 



Cape Colony. Cape Town. 



Antennal scape long, slender, longer than the following two joints 

 united ; the pedicle twice longer than wide ; the third joint about 

 one-quarter longer than the following. Head shining, minutely 

 punctured, the front below thickly covered with white pubescence. 

 Hind ocelli separated from each other by twice the distance they 

 are from the eyes. Malar space about two-thirds of the length of 

 the antennal scape. Clypeus bordered laterally by deep furrows ; its 

 apex rounded. Mandibles broadly piceous at the base. Base of 

 thorax rounded at the sides. Mesonotum thickly covered with 

 white pubescence ; sparsely punctured ; the furrows complete, nar- 

 rowed and rounded at the base. Median segment reticulated, the 

 metanotum more closely and rugosely ; the apical slope oblique, 

 straight; its apical half with a wide furrow. Metasternal forks 

 stout, straight, obliquely diverging. Abdominal petiole as long as 

 the metanotum. Base of propleurae smooth, the apex depressed. 



