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except the sides and apex (the black mark rounded at the apex), a 

 broad band on the centre of the basal three-fourths of the first 

 abdominal segment, the flagellum of the antennae and the upper part 

 of the antennal scape (its lower part yellow), black ; the greater part 

 of the front, of the occiput, three large marks on the mesonotum 

 and two oval marks behind the centre of the oval part of the meta- 

 notum, rufous. Legs rufo-fulvous, the coxae and trochanters yellow, 

 the tarsi infuscated. Wings hyaline, the stigma fuscous, the ner- 

 vures black, j . 



Length 7 mm. 



Cape. Neighbourhood of Cape Town. 



Vertex, front and face closely punctured, the clypeus smooth, its 

 apex broadly rounded. Mandibular teeth black, the upper the larger. 

 Thorax closely punctured, the centre of the metanotum obscurely 

 transversely striated. Transverse median nervure received shortly 

 beyond the transverse basal. Transverse median nervure in hind 

 wings broken below the middle ; the apical nervures are faint. The 

 spiracles of first abdominal segment are prominent ; the sides below 

 them are keeled. Metasternum distinctly margined. Last joint of 

 hind tarsi longer than the fourth and shorter than the third. 

 Basal three segments of the abdomen closely distinctly, the 

 fourth weakly, punctured, the others smooth. The third joint of 

 antennae longer than the fourth. Tarsi long ; the basal two joints of 

 the anterior are together as long as the tibiae. 



In Ashmead's tables (Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., xxiii., 74) this species 

 runs into Philotymma and Scopesis ; it differs from the former in the 

 metasternum being margined ; from the latter in the spiracles of the 

 first abdominal segment being prominent. 



METOPIINI. 



METOPIUS, Panz. 



" Metopius eeythrospilus, sp. nov. 



Black, the inner orbits, malar space, the face, except for a large 

 oval black mark in the centre, labrum, clypeus, mandibles, palpi, a 

 narrow line on the hinder edge of the pronotum, tegulse, the sides 

 narrowly, the apex of scutellum more broadly, post-scutellum, a 

 small oval mark on the sides of the metanotum at the apex, tubercles, 

 a mark below and touching them, longer than wide and rounded 

 below, the sides and apex of the first abdominal segment narrowly, 

 the apex of the second yellowish, with a rufous band behind extend- 

 ing to the apex, the third similarly coloured but with the black basal 



