204 Annals of the Soiith African Museum. 



Apanteles basimacula, Cam., 



Eec. Alban. Mus., i., pt. iii., 1904, p. 173. 



May be known by the basal two segments of the abdomen being 

 enth'ely w^hitish testaceous; A. maculitarsis, Cam., I.e., p. 173, has 

 the basal segment of the abdomen as broad as long, and all the 

 segments are smooth and shining, as is also the metanotum. 



CHALCIDIDiE. 

 LEUCOSPINJE. 

 LEUCOSPIS, Fabr. 



Leucospis ornata, West., Germ. Zeits. fiir Ent., i. 252. 

 Schletterer, Berl. Entom. Zeits., xxxv., 1890, p. 219. 



Cape Colony. Hex Eiver. 



The amount of the rufous and yellow colour probably varies. 

 There is a <? in the Collection which has the head and thorax almost 

 entirely black, the rufous colour being very scanty, and the yellow 

 only represented by a line above the base of the pronotum and on 

 the apex of the scutellum. The legs, too, are darker coloured. 



I have in my Collection from the Cape another species which 

 cannot well be confounded with any of the South African species. 



* Leucospis africana, sp. nov. 

 Black, but the under side of the antennal flagellum, a short line 

 on the base of the pronotum in the centre uniting with the yellow 

 transverse one, a triangular one at the sides at the end of the 

 yellow line, its apex being united to the tegulae, a line on the apex, 

 the tegulsB, a broad line along the sides of the mesonotum, a tri- 

 angular mark on the apex of the latter, the apex of the scutellum, 

 the post- scutellum, the tubercules, a large triangular mark, almost 

 covering the metapleurae and the basal abdominal segment to beyond 

 the middle are red; while a line across the middle of the pronotum, 

 a curved one on the apex of the scutellum, a broader one on the sides 

 of the metanotum, and one on the apices of the basal two abdominal 

 segments are yellow. Legs red, the 4 anterior coxas for the greater 

 part, the fore femora on the basal half, the middle on the basal two- 

 thirds above, the outer side of the hind femora, except above, where 



