Descriptio)is of New Species of Paraaitic Hijmcnoptera. 117 



be paler, more testaceous in colour, the yellow tint in the wings 

 being also paler. In the collection from Rondeburg, September, is a 

 closely allied species or variety, diifering from the type in having 

 the median segment and the hind legs largely suffused with black, 

 and in the first abdominal segment being black. The punctuation 

 on the abdomen is closer. Probably the species is variable in 

 colouration, as it certainly is in size. 



GLYPTA, Gravenh. 

 Glypta nigro-ornata, sp. nov. 



Rufous, the face, inner orbits, mandibles and palpi yellow, tinged 

 with rufous ; the front and vertex broadly, the occiput, outer edge of 

 the outer orbits, the outer, upper half of the malar space, meso- 

 notum at the sides behind the tegulae, propleurae from shortly below 

 the middle, prosternum, meso- and metasternum, the black extend- 

 ing on to the pleurae, a narrow line behind the tubercles, a broad 

 line along the lower two-thirds of the apex of the mesopleurse, the 

 scape of the antennas above and the fliagellum entirely, black. $ . 



Length 9 mm. 



Cape Colony. Stellenbosch. 



Face and clypeus minutely punctured and covered with a white 

 pubescence ; the front and vertex smooth and shining. Malar scape 

 longer than the antennal scape. Mandibular teeth equal in length. 

 Mesonotum strongly, but not closely punctured, the punctures in 

 rows, the sides of the central lobe smooth at the base ; it is clearly 

 separated to near the apex. Scutellum roundly convex ; it is 

 strongly punctured; post-scutellum smooth. Pleurae and meta- 

 notum strongly and closely punctured — more closely and strongly 

 than the mesonotum. First abdominal segment except at the base, 

 and the second to fourth strongly closely punctured ; the others 

 smooth, pilose, the last tinged with yellow ; genital armature large, 

 black. Wings hyaline, the nervures and stigma black ; the areolet 

 oblique, shortly appendiculated ; the second transverse cubital ner- 

 vure the longer ; it is also fainter. The four front legs are largely 

 tinged with fulvous ; the hinder are redder in tint and have the apex 

 of the tibiae and the calcaria black. 



The first abdominal segment is twice longer than wide ; the second 

 and third are wider than long ; the furrows are deep. There is a 

 deep, oblique furrow on the lower half of the metapleurae, its lower 

 part touching the base ; on the lower basal half is a leaf-like, obscure 

 yellow keel, immediately over the coxae. The transverse median 



