142 Aimals of the South African Museum. 



Oneilella formosa, Cam., Zeit. f. Hyni. ii. Dipt., 1904, 190. 

 A single <? from Durban, Natal. 



The species has been reared from Anaphe reticulata. Cf. 

 Cameron, I.e. 



OSPEYNCHOTUS, Spin. 



OSPRYNCHOTUS CAPENSIS, Spin. 



Spinola, Gu6r. Mag. de Zool., 1841, 75 ; Brulle, Hym^n. iv., 133; 

 Tosquinet, Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg. v. 244. 

 Natal. Umvoti. 



OsPRYNCHOTUS RUFICEPS, sp. nOV. 



Black, the thirteenth and fourteenth antennal joints entirely and 

 the fifteenth and sixteenth below whitish yellow, the under side of 

 the antennal scape, the head and the greater part of the prothorax, 

 red ; wings fuscous violaceous, the nervures and stigma black ; the 

 hinder tibiae and tarsi yellow, the extreme base of the tibiae, a band 

 on the apex as long as the black hinder calcaria; a band on the base 

 of the tarsi shorter than them, and the last joint of the tarsi with 

 the claws, black. ? . 



Length 21 mm. ; terebra 10 nun. 



Cape Colony. Port St. Johns. 



Face and clypeus finely closely punctured ; the clypeus distinctly 

 separated from the face ; the lower part of the clypeus finely closely 

 striated. Lower part of front black and smooth, the upper irregu- 

 larly striated ; the ocellar region black. Thorax thickly covered 

 with short black hair ; the mesonotum closely, the scutellum much 

 more sparsely punctured and shining. Metanotum closely rugosely 

 punctured at the base behind the keel, the middle closely reticulated ; 

 the apex stoutly transversely reticulated. Propleurae smooth ; the 

 meso- and metapleurse closely strongly longitudinally reticulated. 

 The recurrent nervure is received at the apex of the basal third of 

 the areolet. The hind coxae are longer compared with their width 

 than they are with 0. capensis ; they are densely covered with black 

 hair. In the sculpture of the thorax it approaches more to 0. heros, 

 Schlett., from the Congo. The hinder metatarsus is as long as the 

 following three joints united ; the last is as long as the preceding 

 two united ; in its middle are two stout, longish spines. 



Comes nearest, of the three known species, to 0. flavipes, B6. ; 

 that may be known, inter alia, by the much longer ovipositor. The 

 second abdominal segment is three times longer than its width at 

 the apex ; the basal third is distinctly narrowed ; it is as long as the 

 following two segments united ; the third is twice the length of the 



