114 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Dunbrody. 



SPILOPIMPLA, Cam. 

 Spilopimpla rufithorax, Cam. 



PIMPLA, Fabr. 



-■= PiMPLA NATALENSIS, Sp. nOV. 



Eufous, the antennae, ocelli, and the hind tibiae and tarsi, black ; 

 the wings yellowish hyaline, an irregular cloud commencing on the 

 stigma near its base, shortly behind the radius and extending to the 

 opposite side, a wider cloud at the apex of the wing, both being 

 united by a cloud as wide as the basal at the posterior edge of the 

 wings ; there is a cloud, as wide as that on the apex of the front 

 wings, on the hinder pair ; the part of the stigma enclosing the cloud 

 is black ; its base, costa, and nervures are yellow. $ . 



Length, body and ovipositor, nearly 10 mm. 



Natal. 



Head smooth and shining, the face covered with long fulvous 

 hair. Apex of mandibles black. Antennae covered with a dense 

 microscopic black pile ; the apical joint brown, as long as the follow- 

 ing two united. Temples not narrowed, rounded behind. Areolet 

 shortly appendiculated, almost sessile, oblique ; the recurrent ner- 

 vure is received at the base of the apical fourth. Transverse median 

 nervure in hind wings broken shortly above the middle. The disco- 

 cubital nervure is distinctly broken. Abdomen twice longer than 

 the head and thorax united ; the basal five segments closely, strongly 

 punctured except at the apex ; the transverse depressions are 

 shallower than usual ; on the base of the last segment are two 

 furrows which unite at the base. Metanotal spiracles oval. Claws 

 untoothed. The ovipositor is straight, projecting from the lower 

 side of the abdomen. 



This species has a great resemblance to Cosmiopimpla vipoides, 

 but, apart from the fact that the latter has three clouds in the wings, 

 it has also the transverse median nervure in hind wings broken 

 below, not above the middle as it is in Punpla. 



PiMPLA LIMBATA, Tosq. 



Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg., v., 1896, p. 295. 



This species (described from the Cape) is in the collection from 

 King William's Town District (St. Mathew's). It comes close to 

 P. shaivi, Cam., Eecords Albany Mus., i., 145. The two may be 

 separated thus : — 



