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weak and irregular; in spilopus the areola is deep, almost twice 

 longer than wide, the areas bordering it are wider than long; in 

 what I make out to be amenocles the areola is fully 3 times longer 

 than wide and is wider at the base than at the apex ; the basal 

 lateral area is triangular, the apex below the base shorter than the 

 length ; the area below it is oblique, narrowest on the inner side ; 

 that above it is quadrangular, the one below triangular ; the hind 

 tibiae are reddish, with a white band near the base and a wider one 

 at the apex ; the 4 front legs are black to near the apex of the 

 femora, there they are white, as they are also at the base of 

 the tibiae ; the rest of them are reddish. 



* ChALCIS NATALEN8IS, Sp. nOV. 



Black, the post-scutellum, the abdomen, except for a large pyriform 

 mark on the base (the narrowed end of the base) extending from 

 near the base of the segment to its apex and a mark in the centre of 

 the apical two segments, bright red ; the apex of all the femora, the 

 tibiae, tarsi, and the tegulae bright yellow ; the hind femora red, a 

 large black oval mark touching the basal yellow one and ex- 

 tending shortly beyond the middle. Wings hyaline, the nervures 

 black. 



Length 6 mm. ? . 



Natal. 



Apex of scutellum ending in two longish horny, pale-coloured 

 lobes, which are broad at the base, narrowed towards the apex ; 

 above them are 2 dense tufts of long silvery pubescence. Meta- 

 notum widely reticulated ; the areola is long, lanceolate at the base ; 

 the sides have a stout longish tooth close to the middle. The 

 central part of the mesopleurae is reticulated, the base and apex 

 smooth ; the former with a row of foveao, the depressed apex with 

 clearly separated keels. Propleurae smooth for the greater part ; 

 near the centre is a stout oblique keel ; the top is weakly, the 

 bottom more strongly, widely striated. Metapleurae closely rugosely 

 reticulated. Basal segment of abdomen and the base and apex of 

 the others smooth ; the central part strongly punctured. The apical 

 segment is roundly narrowed ; it is depressed in the centre. On the 

 hind femora are about a dozen teeth ; the basal are indistinct and 

 pressed together ; the others are more widely separated ; the pen- 

 ultimate is separated by a longish space from the last. 



This is a larger and stouter species than C. melanospila ; it may 

 be known by the red abdomen, with the large triangular black mark 



