Hymcnoptt'ra. 100 



Descri[)tions of three new species of Hj^menoptera from Pearston' 

 South Africa. 



By p. Camerox. 



Chalcididae. 



Tori/ //HIS Mi'xemlnjanfliemi^i , sp. nov. 



Head (lark green with brassy tints and covered thickly with 

 glistening white hair ; mandibles dark rufous at the base ; the 

 scape of antennfe rufous, the fiagellum black. Upper part of 

 thorax dark green largelj" tinted with brassy and rufous tints ; the 

 pleurae similarly coloured, the posterior smooth part of the 

 mesopleura3 with purple and violaceous tints. Legs dark blue with 

 brassj" tints, the apex of the femora, tibiae and tarsi pale yellow. 

 Abdomen dark blue, with green and violaceous tints ; the 

 ovipositor slightly longer than the body. Wings clear hyaline, 

 the nervures black. 



Length hardly 3, terebra fully .3 m.m. 



Antennae stout ; the annellus distinctly narrower (about half 

 its width) than the following joint ; the scape not reaching to the 

 ocelli, slender, not dilated at apex. The 3 mandibular teeth not 

 clearly separated. P^yes brownish, glabrous. There is a broadish, 

 flat keel below the antennas. Face sparsely punctured. Pro- 

 mesonotum and scutellum closely and destinctly punctured, the 

 metonotum less strongly punctured, especially in the middle 

 which is bright rosj" in colour. The 2nd and 3rd segments of 

 the abdomen are purple, the 1st green with slight brassy tints, the 

 other segments green, blue and brassy. 



This species was bred by Dr. Robert Broom, C.M.Z.S., from a 

 gall in the buds of a species of Mesonhryanthemum found in the 

 veldt at Pearston, South Africa. The maker of the gall is unknown. 



