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they are red, and a yellow line above the teeth — the line broadest 

 at the base. Wings fuscous-violaceous, the nervures black. ? . 



Length 6 mm. 



Apex of ovipositor reaching close to the apex of the basal third of 

 the second abdominal segment. Apex of pronotum with 2 transverse 

 keels ; the basal one is much stouter than the apical, and there is a 

 short one in the middle at the yellow line. Middle of apex of scutel- 

 lum with a raised border. Sides of post-scutellum stoutly dentate. 

 Eyes slightly converging below ; the hind ocelli separated from each 

 other by a distinctly greater distance than they are from the eyes. 

 Face and clypeus closely, strongly striated; the sides of the front are 

 more irregularly striated ; the vertex rugosely punctured, as is also 

 the thorax ; both are thickly covered with white pubescence ; the 

 metapleurae more finely and closely punctured than the rest. Hind 

 femora with 3 short stumpy basal teeth close to each other and 

 5 stout longish apical ones, all widely separated, the lower one more 

 widely separated from the one above it than the others are from 

 each other ; it is also half the size. Basal joints of flagellum clearly 

 longer than thick. Malar space as long as antennal scape. 



The first abdominal segment is twice as long as it is wide at the 

 apex ; there is a keel down its centre ; this keel has a transverse 

 one at its base. Hind femora fully twice longer than thick ; very 

 shining, closely but not strongly punctured and covered sparsely 

 with white pubescence. The first abdominal segment clearly 

 separated from the second. 



In the table of Schletterer's (Berl. Ent. Zeits., xxxv., 163) this 

 species would come in near L. tricarinata and elegants. It is one 

 of the smaller species. 



CHALCIDIDINiE. 



Chalcidini. 



CHALCIS. Lin., sec. Kirby. 



The species enumerated below belong to Chalcis as limited by 

 Kii-by (Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., xvii., 65) and by Kieffer (Berl. Ent, 

 Zeits., xlix., 1904, 259), but not as limited by x\shmead (Class, of 

 the Chalcid Flies, p. 249) ; that is to say they have the apex of the 

 scutellum bilobate, while Chalcis, Ashm., has it rounded. The 

 latter is identical with Oncochalcis, Cam., The Entomologist, 1904, 

 161. The South African Chalcis i)ymi, Cam. (Kec. Alban. Mus., 



