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Front and vertex smooth, except for some curved striae bordering 

 the upper part of the frontal depression. Face closely punctured, 

 broadly dilated in the middle ; the clypeus is more sparsely punc- 

 tured. Palpi blackish fuscous. Mesonotum closely, somewhat 

 strongly punctured and thickly covered with fuscous hair ; the 

 scutellum is more shining, less closely punctured and less closely 

 haired. Metanotum closely, strongly reticulated-punctured ; the 

 pleurae strongly, obliquely striated reticulated. The upper part of 

 the propleurae is punctured, the middle smooth, the lower strongly 

 striated. The upper basal half of the mesopleurse is irregularly 

 striated, the apical smooth, the lower part is strongly punctured, 

 more or less striated. Abdominal petiole long and slender, fully 

 longer than the following two segments united ; the post-petiole is 

 hardly dilated ; the spiracles are prominent ; the second segment 

 has the basal third narrowed. Legs thickly haired ; they are 

 entirely black ; the hind coxae are about three times longer than 

 wide. There is a curved dark testaceous mark on the apex of the 

 last segment. 



SKEATIA, Cam. 

 ■-' Skeatia annulipes, sp. nov. 



Black, the centre of clypeus, face, inner eye orbits, the lower half 

 of the outer more broadly, a longish broad line in the centre of pro- 

 notum, tegulae, scutellar keels, scutellum except the basal slope, 

 post-scutellum, a line round the edges of the apical slope of the 

 metanotum, including the spines, the line triangularly dilated above, 

 a short line on the lower basal edge of the propleurae, tubercles, a 

 mark on the lower basal part of the mesopleurae, longer than wide, 

 transverse below, obliquely narrowed to a point above, a smaller, 

 irregular mark on the apex opposite it, a conical mark below the 

 hind wings, a large, oblique mark longer than wide, on the centre of 

 the metapleurae, and lines on the apices of the abdominal segments 

 — those on the fourth to sixth interrupted in the middle, pale yellow. 

 Four front legs yellow, the femora reddish, the tibiae and tarsi 

 blackish below ; the hind coxas, trochanters, and femoi'a red ; the 

 apex of femora, tibiae, and tarsi black ; the base of the tibiae with a 

 narrow white band, the basal joint of the tarsi and the second joint, 

 except at the apex, white. Wings hyaline, the nervures and stigma 

 black. 5 . 



Length 16 mm. ; terebra 6 mm. 



Cape Colony. 



The sixth to twelfth joints of the antennae white, the apex mode- 

 rately dilated. Front stoutly keeled in the centre, the upper part 



