124 Annals of the South African Museum 



LiSSONOTA CUEVILINEATA, Cam. 



Eecords Albany Museum, i., 147. 



The example of this species described is a J . There is a $ in the 

 South African Museum from Dunbrody (Rev. J. A. O'Neil). It 

 resembles the J" , but with the yellow markings more extended ; and 

 the apical four segments of the abdomen are for the greater part 

 rufous, the basal four, as in the <? , being bordered at the apex with 

 yellow. The ovipositor is from 4 to 5 mm. long; body length 8 

 to 10 mm. 



? LiSSONOTA SPILOCEPHALA, Sp. nOV. 



Black, head yellow, the middle of the front and vertex broadly, the 

 occiput, three lines on the face, the central the longer and thicker, 

 two marks below leading into the clypeal foveas, becoming gradually 

 wider ; a broad line on the outer orbits at the top uniting the eyes to 

 the black on the vertex, black. Thorax black, two narrow lines on 

 the mesonotum, scutellums, a line on the top of the prothorax, 

 a narrower one on the lower edge, a broad band, obliquely narrowed 

 at the apex on the lower part of the mesopleurae, the middle roundly 

 incised above, below broadly roundly dilated, and a broad band, 

 widest behind, in the centre of the metapleurae, lemon-yellow. First 

 abdominal segment black except at the apex ; its apex and the rest 

 of the abdomen dark rufous, the apical segments marked with black. 

 Four front legs fulvous, tinged with yellow ; the coxae and trochanters 

 yellow ; the hind legs rufous, their coxae yellow above. Wings 

 hyaline, the stigma and nervures black, the former fuscous at the 

 base; areolet shortly appendiculated; the transverse median nervure 

 received shortly, but distinctly beyond the transverse basal. ^ . 



Length 8 mm. 



Cape Colony. Stellenbosch. 



Head shining, smooth, the ocellar region slightly punctured ; 

 buccate, the malar space as long as the lower side of the antennal 

 scape. Clypeus not separated from the face, its apex sharply 

 rounded. Mandibles yellow, their teeth black. Palpi fuscous. 

 Thorax shining, the pleurae closely and strongly punctured; the 

 mesonotum weakly, somewhat sparsely, the scutellem as strongly, 

 but not so closely punctured as the sides. Metanotum punctured 

 slightly more strongly than the sides ; there is a distinct transverse 

 keel close to the apex, extending to the pleurae ; the spiracles are 

 small, oval. Metapleural keel distinct, dilated roundly at the base. 

 Disco-cubital nervure not angularly broken, without a stump of a 

 nervure. Claws not distinctly pectinated. 



