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large mark on the metanotum, coramencing near the base of the 

 areola, extending to near the apex and with the apical half extended 

 on to the spiracular area and the apices of all the abdominal 

 segments (the band on the first wider than on the others) pale 

 yellow. Four front legs pale yellow ; the coxae and trochanters, 

 and the upper part of the femora broadly, black ; the hinder legs 

 black, two marks (the outer longer and narrower than the inner), 

 a narrow line on the top of the femora, more than the basal half 

 of the tibiae and the calcaria, yellow. Wings hyaline, the stigma 

 and nervures black. J" . 



Length 12 mm. 



Cape Colony. Worcester Distr. ; Hex Eiver (January). 



Front, face and clypeus closely punctured. Mandibles rufous 

 above. Thorax closely and strongly punctured, the scutellum 

 almost smooth ; the pubescence on the head and thorax is close 

 and white. Abdomen closely punctured, most strongly on the basal 

 segments ; the gastrocceli shallow, indistinct. 



As this species differs in some respects from the type of the 

 genus, e.g., the disco-cubital nervure is distinctly broken and the 

 transverse median nervure is interstitial, I give a generic description 

 of it. 



Median segment untoothed, only the areola and posterior median 

 ai'eae defined ; the areola large, wider than long, 6-angled, narrowed 

 at the base, the apex transverse ; the base of the segment is deeply, 

 obliquely depi^essed. Spiracles large, linear. Head narrower than 

 the thorax ; the temples wide, oblique, Clypeus not separated from 

 the face, its apex almost transverse. Labrum not projecting. 

 Scutellum roundly convex ; the sides not keeled. Antennae short, 

 tapering towards the apex, slightly serrate. Areolet large, not much 

 narrowed in front, 5-angled ; the recurrent nervure received near the 

 middle ; disco-cubital nervure broken by a distinct stump of a 

 nervure ; the transverse median nervure almost interstitial. 



■■' ? Maceophatnus teilineatus, sp. nov. 



Yellow, tinged with fulvous, the centre of the front, clypeus and 

 occiput broadly, three lines on the mesonotum, the central (and 

 larger) on the basal, the others on the apical half, the parts sur- 

 rounding the scutellum, the pleuras, the second abdominal segment 

 except round the edges above and the third and fourth, black ; the 

 outer orbits bi"oadly rufous ; the antennae and femora are more 

 largely tinged with fulvous than the rest of the legs and body. 



