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side, the apex oblique ; on the apical slope are three arese, the 

 central longer and narrower than the others ; there is a spiracular 

 area. Spiracles linear. Scutellum rounded, not much raised, the 

 base keeled. Clypeus not separated from the face ; the sides above 

 deeply foveate ; its apex transverse. Labrum hidden. Abdomen 

 with eight segments ; the first long, the post-petiole not separated, 

 it becoming gradually widened towards the apex ; the second, and, to 

 a less extent, the third, closely punctured ; the gastrocoeli transverse, 

 deep; ovipositor projecting; the last two segments are white. Ventral 

 keel on the second and third segments. 



The temples are straight, obliquely narrowed, broad ; occiput 

 margined, roundly incised. Apices of tarsal joints spinose. Apex 

 of hind femora reaching to the apex of third abdominal segment. 

 This genus should be readily known by the blue-black body, deep 

 violaceous wings with 4-angled areolet, regularly areolated metanotum 

 and long narrow areola. 



Leptoph.\tnus ruficeps, sp. nov. 



Blue-black, the head orange-red, the apical two abdominal 

 segments white above ; wings deep fuscous violaceous, the nervures 

 and stigma black ; the antennae with the eleventh to sixteenth joints 

 for the greater part white. $ . 



Length 18 mm. 



Cape Colony. Port St. Johns. 



Face closely and strongly, the top of the clypeus sparsely, 

 punctured, its apex smooth, as are also the front and vertex ; the 

 former deeply depressed, the raised upper part deeply furrowed. 

 Thorax closely, distinctly punctured, the median segment more 

 closely and strongly than the rest ; the centre of the lateral lobe of 

 mesonotum smooth ; and there is a smooth shining space on the 

 upper part of the mesopleurae at the apex. Petiole with longish 

 punctures along the sides ; post-petiole closely, finely longitudinally 

 striated ; the apex shining in the centre, with a few punctures ; the 

 second and third segments closely, finely punctured. 



JOPPINI. 



HENICOPHATNUS, Kriechb. 



Henicophatnus pilosus, sp. nov. 



Dark red ; the abdomen tinged with violaceous tints, the apex of 

 the fourth and the following segments whitish yellow ; the legs (and 



