116 Annals of the South African Museum. 



PiMPLA HEXENSIS, Sp. nOV. 



Black, the legs bright red, flagellum of antennae brownish below ; 

 the palpi testaceous yellow ; tegulse pale yellow ; the edges of the 

 clypeus testaceous ; the abdominal segments narrowly, but distinctly 

 lined with rufous at the apex. Wings hyaline, the stigma fuscous, 

 the nervures black. 3 . 



Length 7 mm. 



Cape Colony. Worcester Distr. ; Hex Eiver. 



Face closely, strongly punctured, bluntly keeled in the middle, 

 thickly covered with white pvibescence. Apex of clypeus smooth,, 

 depressed, brownish, paler round the edges. Front punctured in 

 the middle. Temples broad, obliquely roundly narrowed. Meso- 

 notum verj- smooth and shining. Scutellum more opaque, finely 

 punctured. Metanotum closely, somewhat strongly transversely 

 striated; the apical slope smooth. Propleurae smooth, the apex 

 with a striated band. Mesopleura3 smooth and bare above, below 

 punctured and covered with white pubescence. Metapleurae closely,. 

 distinctly punctured, the punctures running into striae at the apex. 

 There is a crenulated furrow near the apex of the mesopleuvae. 

 Abdomen closely punctured; the punctures becoming weaker 

 towards the apex ; the first segment three times longer than its 

 width at the apex ; its spiracles prominent ; there are no transverse 

 depressions. Areolet oblique, sessile, almost appendiculated, the 

 recurrent nervure is received shortly beyond the middle ; the disco- 

 cubital nervure is angled and broken by a distinct stump of a nervure 

 before the middle ; the transverse median nervure in hind wings is 

 broken shortly above the middle. The first joint of the flagellum is 

 about one-fourth longer than the second ; the last is shorter than the 

 preceding. Eyes not emarginate. Parapsidal furrows obsolete. 

 Metathoracic spiracles small, oval. Claws untoothed. 



This is not a typical Pimpla as now defined, but having only a. 

 single male I leave it in that genus for the present. 



COSMIOPIMPLA, Cam. 



COSMIOPIMPLA FEREUGINEA, Cam., 



Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, vol. xv., 1905, p. 198. 



This species is probably identical with Pimpla vipoides, BrulI6 

 (Hymen., iv., 96). Most of the specimens in the collection have a 

 small black mark on the sides of the second and third abdominal 

 segments. The S is similarly coloured to the ? , except that it may 



