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In the system of Dr. Schmiedeknecht (Opus. Ichn. 27) this genus 

 would come in near Heresiarchcs ; the latter may he known by the 

 areola being indicated by a polished space and the metanotum 

 deeply furrowed behind. 



EOSSELLA VIOLACEIPENNIS, Sp. nOV. 



Black, the antennal scape and head dark red ; the mesonotum 

 tinged with red ; the basal three abdominal segments bright red ; 

 the tibiae and tarsi rufo-testaceous ; the hind tarsi blackish. ? . 



Length 12 mm. 



Transvaal. Johannesburg. 



Head and thorax thickly covered with white pubescence ; the 

 face closely, the clypeus sparsely punctured ; the front and vertex, 

 except at the orbits, are blackish. Mesonotum closely, finely 

 punctured ; the scutellum smooth and shining. Metanotum closely, 

 rugosely punctured, opaque ; there is a keel round the top of the 

 apical slope, weak in the centre, dilated at the sides. Pleurae closely 

 punctured. Mandibles red, black at the apex. Palpi blackish, 

 covered with white pubescence. 



LISTBODBOMINI. 



CTENOCHARES, Forst. 

 Ctenochares xanthomelas, Be. 



This species is in the collection from Cape Town. Northwards it 

 extends into Spain. No less than three genera have been proposed 

 for this species — namely, Ctenochares, Foerster, Verb. d. naturh. 

 Ver. pr. Rheinl., xxv., 1868, p. 191 ; Joppites, Berthoumieu, Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. Fr., 1894, p. 241 ; and Gelmis, Tosquinet, Mem. Soc, 

 Entom. de Belgique, v., p. 71 (1896). 



PLATYUEL 

 PLATYLABUS, Westm. 



PlATYLABUS ? RUFO-ORNATUS, Sp. nOV. 



Black, the apex of scutellum, the eye orbits, two broad lines on 

 the mesonotum, the greater part of the scutellum, the abdomen 

 except the narrowed basal part of the first segment, the legs except 

 the coxae and the antennal scape, red ; the eighth to seventeenth 

 joints of antennae fulvous yellow ; wings hyaUne, the stigma 

 testaceous, the costa and nervures black. $ and J" • 



Length 12 mm. 



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