130 Annals of the South African Miiscum. 



hind tibiae and tarsi, black. Wings fuscous, tinged with violaceous,^ 

 the base to near the commencement of the transverse median and 

 basal and the hinder pair to near the middle yellowish hyaline ; the 

 costa at the base of the stigma yellow. $ . 



Length 19-20 mm. ; terebra 3 mm. 



Natal. " Caught in window of room in Cape Town in which were 

 divers pupae of Saturnidge." 



Antennae nearly as long as the body, covered with a short, dense, 

 stiff microscopic pile. Centre of front closely, finely punctured ; 

 covered with a blackish pile. Face strongly punctured, its centre- 

 with a longitudinal furrow and with a similar furrow on either side ; 

 the raised central pai't of the clypeus is furrowed, the furrow 

 narrowed at the apex ; the part bordering the furrow is flat, smooth 

 and shining. Thorax densely covered with fulvous pubescence. 

 There is a wide furrow down the middle of the metanotum ; the base 

 of the latter is smooth, the apex stoutly irregularly reticulated. 

 Pleurae smooth and shining. Abdomen smooth, shining, bare ; 

 the sides of the apical two dorsal segments below are whitish 

 testaceous. 



AEOTES, Gravenh. 



? Arotes flavescens, sp. nov. 



Yellow, darker above, the mesonotum infuscated, the apical 

 segments of abdomen black above ; the antennae, except for a white 

 band of four joints between the middle and apex, the ocellar I'egion, 

 the hind tibiae, except their apical half below, and the hind tibiae^ 

 black. Wings hyaline, the apex with a narrow smoky band; the 

 nervures and stigma black. <? 



Length 13 mm. 



Cape Colony. George. 



Antennae nearly as long as the body ; the scape and pedicle 

 yeUow below. Face and clypeus strongly, closely punctured, the 

 latter not separated from the former; the labrum large, broad, 

 nearly as long as the clypeus ; its apex transverse. Eyes slightly 

 converging above. Malar space as long as the antennal scape, 

 furrowed in the middle. Mesonotum and scutellum sparsely 

 punctured ; the parapsidal furrows deep. Metanotum smooth at the 

 base, the rest with stout, roundly curved striae. The middle and 

 apex of propleurae stoutly, closely striated ; the mesopleurae obscurely 

 striated at the apex above ; the rest and the metapleurae obscurely 

 punctured. Abdomen smooth ; the first segment slightly longer than 

 the following two segments united ; the second is as long as it is. 

 wide at the apex ; the third broader than long, the others shorter. 



