218 Annals of the So2ith African Mtiseum. 



densely covered with depressed, pale - golden pubescence. The 

 apical segment is long, becomes gradually narrowed to a fine point, 

 aciculated - rugose, smooth at the apex. The ovipositor is longer 

 than the abdomen, rufous, black at the apex. 



PHASGANOPHOEA, Westrv. 



Phasgonophora kuficaudis, sp. nov. 



Black, the six basal joints of flagellum, the legs, except the fore 

 coxae and the upper part of the hind femora, the base of the 

 abdomen and the ovipositor rufous ; the win s hyaline, their 

 nervures black. J , 



Length 7mm. 



Dunbrody. Cape Colony. 



The base and sides of the prothorax, the mesonotum round the 

 scutellum"; the sides of the latter are rufous. Face closely, strongly 

 punctured. Frontal depression deep, closely striated, narrower 

 than the space between it and the eyes. Hind ocelli separated from 

 each other by double the distance they are from the eyes. Malar 

 space as long as the eyes. Pronotum as long as the mesonotum ; 

 its basal slope rufous, closely transversely striated. Pro- and meso- 

 notum and scutellum covered with raised points in transverse rows ; 

 those on the scutellum are broader and larger. Metanotum reticulated ; 

 its areola is large, wide on the apical two-thirds, narrowed at the 

 base ; the sides of the segment are rounded at the apex and thickly 

 covered with long, grey hair ; their base bears laterally an oblique, 

 stout tooth. Propleurae smooth above ; there is a curved keel below 

 the middle. Central part of mesopleurae closely reticulated ; the 

 base of the metapleurae smooth, the rest strongly reticulated. Hind 

 femora with seven teeth ; the basal close together, the rest widely 

 separated ; the apical broad, rounded. Abdomen smooth, except the 

 sixth segment, which is strongly punctured. The ovipositor is 

 nearly half the length of the abdomen. The first joint of the 

 flagellum is not quite so long as the second. The whole body and 

 legs thickly covered with glistening white hair. 



EUEYCENTEUS, gen. nov. 



3- . Antennae at least 12-jointed, the last joints not clearly 

 separated, the third joint not much longer than the pedicle, covered 



