Descriptions of New Species of Parasitic Hyi)ieiwptera. 167 



•especially the hinder) darker coloured ; the apical half of the fore 

 femora, a line on the upper inner orbits, pale yellow ; antennae dark 

 red, the middle joints paler ; wings hyaline, iridescent, the stigma 

 testaceous, the nervures black. ? . 



Length 13 mm. 



Cape Colony. King William's Town District ; St. Mathew's. 



Flagellum, head, thorax and legs thickly covered with white 

 pubescence ; that on the sternum longer and denser. Head with wide 

 temples, not much narrowed, and a long malar space — longer than 

 the antennal scape ; the face and clypeus closely punctured, except 

 ■on the apex of the latter; the two form one piece, there being no 

 dividing suture. Front and vertex smooth. Apex of mandibles 

 black, depressed in the middle. Palpi black, thickly covered with 

 white pubescence. Mesonotum closely reticulated and thickly 

 €Overed with fulvous pubescence. Scutellum roundly convex, 

 shining, the middle with large, scattered punctures, the apex with an 

 oblique slope, stoutly, irregularly striated ; the space between the 

 striae depressed. Median segment closely, strongly reticulated - 

 punctured, the base of the area smoother and more shining ; there 

 is only one area, formed by 2 keels extending from the base to the 

 apex ; the keels turn in slightly and roundly, before the middle ; the 

 rest of them diverge slightly and roundly, the apex being thus wider 

 than the base. Pleurae strongly, closely punctured, more or less 

 reticulated. Abdomen short ; the first segment as long as the 

 second ; the post-petiole broadly dilated, strongly, closely, longi- 

 tudinally striated ; the second segment is longer than its width at 

 the apex ; it is closely punctured, striated at the base ; the gastrocoeli 

 deep, transverse, deepest in the middle, with the sides oblique ; the 

 third is broader than long ; the apical segments smooth, together not 

 longer than the third. Areolet 5-angled, narrowed in front ; the 

 disco-cubital nervure broken by a stump of a nervure, the transverse 

 median received shortly beyond the transverse basal. 



The median segment is roundly sloped ; there is no tooth on it ; 

 the scutellum is stoutly margined laterally ; the sides on the inner 

 side depressed and with some transverse keels. The antennae are 

 dilated beyond the middle. Apex of clypeus broadly rounded, 

 almost transverse ; there are no lateral foveae. Terebra projecting. 

 Thorax about two and a half times longer than wide. 



This species does not quite agree with the description of Heni- 

 cophatnus given by Kriechbaumer (Berl. Ent. Zeit. xxxix. 301) ; for 

 instance, that genus has the " metanoto utrinque denticulo brevi, 

 acuto armato." 



