Descriptions of Neiv Species of Parasitic Hyvienoptera. 37 



stigma in front black; the apex of stigma and nervures yellowish; 

 the apical nervures darker colom-ed. $ . 



Length 5 mm. 



Cape. 



Head clearly narrower than the thorax ; it and the thorax smooth 

 and shining ; the abdomen longer than the head and thorax united, 

 gradually roundly narrowed towards the apex ; the basal two seg- 

 ments are closely, somewhat strongly longitudinally punctured ; the 

 apical are smooth. The head and thorax are broad, longish ovate ; 

 the thorax is much more distinctly narrowed at the base than at the 

 apex. In the middle of what I have called the second abdominal 

 segment there is, especially at the sides, the appearance of a suture, 

 so that it may really be two segments. Antennae not much longer 

 than the abdomen, stout; the scape about twice longer than wide; 

 the third longer than the fourth. 



AGATHIDIN^. 



AGATHIS, Latr. 



? Agathis capensis, sp. nov. 



Rufous, antennae, ocellar region, the front, basal half of middle 

 lobe of mesonotum ; a spot on the base of the lateral, one on the 

 apex close to the wings, metanotum to near the middle, the greater 

 part of the basal three segments of the abdomen and the hind tarsi 

 from near the base, black ; wings hyaline ; the costa, stigma, and 

 nervures black. J . 



Length 4 ; ovipositor 3-4 mm. 



Cape Colony. Cape Town. 



Smooth and shining ; the metanotum finely, closely punctured. 

 Basal two segments of abdomen closely, finely punctured, the second 

 with a distinct curved transverse furrow shortly beyond the middle ; 

 the third with a finer one behind the middle. The first abdominal 

 segment is more than twice longer than it is wide at the base, about 

 one-third longer than its wddth at the apex ; the second segment is 

 furrowed laterally at the base. Eadial cellule short, narrow, the 

 radius quite close to the costa ; there is no areolet ; the transverse 

 median nervure interstitial. Mesonotum trilobate. Apex of scutel- 

 lum keeled. A stout keel between the antennae. Apices of all the 

 abdominal segments transverse. 



Except that there is no areolet this species agrees fairly well with 

 Agathis ; owing to the manner in which it is gummed down I am 

 unable to examine the head and fore legs properly. 



