120 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Length 8 mm. 



Cape Colony. Grahamstown. 



Face sparsely punctured, roundly dilated ; the front and vertex 

 are more strongly punctured. Thorax strongly and closely punctured. 

 Covered with a thick pale pubescence. Palpi fuscous. Basal half 

 of the mandibles yellow, the apical black. Mesosternum black, 

 with a yellow line down the sides, these lines being narrower than 

 the outer black ones. 



May be known iromL. cethiopica, Cam., by the broader black lines 

 on the mesonotum, and on the metanotum, by the base of the first 

 abdominal segment not being black, by the broad black lines on the 

 mesosternum and by the line on the face. 



LiSSONOTA ^THIOPICA sp. nOV. 



Yellow ; the following parts black : the antenna?, the occiput, 

 except at the sides, the vertex broadly, the front more narrowly, 

 a broad line in the centre of the mesonotum extending from the 

 base to shortly beyond the middle, a similar line on the apical 

 three-fourths of the sides, the parts bordering the scutellums, two 

 broad lines, united at the apex, on the sides of the mesonotum, 

 the inner curved roundly, the outer straight, a narrow line, dilated 

 below, on the base of the mesopleurae, a broader one on the apex, 

 its upper third narrowed, a line down the middle of the meso- 

 sternum dilated laterally at the base and apex, a large mark near 

 the middle of the first abdominal segment, its base narrowed to a 

 blunt point, its apex transverse ; the others are black except at the 

 apex ; the second having also two irregularly triangular yellow marks 

 at the base. Four front legs yellow, the femora broadly lined with 

 black behind, the edges there fulvous ; the hind legs fulvous, the 

 coxae and trochanters yellow, the former almost entirely black on 

 the inner side, on the outer with a broad black line ; the tarsi 

 infuscated. Wings hyaline, their apices smoky ; the smoky cloud 

 on the anterior commences near the end of the radial cellule ; 

 areolet small, oblique, triangular; the pedicle oblique, longer than 

 the branches ; the recurrent nervure is received near the middle. J . 



Length 8-9 mm. ; terebra 6 mm. 



Cape Colony. Cape Town. 



The J is similar, but smaller ; there is a continuous line on the 

 base of the second abdominal segment ; the black mark on the front 

 and vertex is broader, on the pleurae the lines and marks are 

 smaller ; the line on the mesosternum is interrupted and narrowed. 



