Hymenojitera. HI 



of the petiole broadly on the sides and narrowly behind the yellow 

 apical band above, an irregular mark, broadly dilated in the 

 middle, on the sides of the 2nd segment and the greater part of 

 the apical segments, rufous. Wings fuscous-violaceous, the 

 nervures and stigma black. Legs for the greater part rufous. 



Length to end of 2nd abdominal segment 8 m.m. 



Hab. Pearston, South Africa (Dr. Robert Broom, C.M.Z.S.) 

 Head and thorax closely punctured and densely covered with 

 cinereous pubescence. Third joint of antennae as long as the 

 following two joints united, the claw as long as the apical two 

 joints united. Clypeus twice longer than broad roundly 

 convex in the middle ; the sides at the apex roundly 

 curved : the apex with a shallow, rounded incision. Hinder ocelli 

 separated from each other by a distinctly greater distance than 

 they are from the eyes. The central depi*ession on the metanotum 

 is broad, deepest at the apex and with a narrow, distinct furrow 

 down the centre. The 4 front femora are black above ; all the 

 coxae are black at the base ; the hinder trochanters, and femora, 

 their tibiae behind and the apical 4 joints of the tarsi, black ; the 

 metatarsus dark rufous. The petiole is as long as the head and 

 thorax united, is slightly furrowed down the middle and 

 distinctly punctured except at the base ; the 2nd segment is twice 

 longer than the width at the apex ; it is distinctlj^ nai*rowed at 

 the base. Apical half of the mandibles rufous ; the palpi black. 

 There is a minute yellow mark above the antennae. 



This species comes near to Z. delagoensis, Schult, of which 

 the female only is known. Apart from differences in colouration 

 Z. delagoensis may be known by the hinder ocelli being separated 

 from each other by the same distance they are from the eyes, by 

 the petiole being only of the length of the thorax and by the 

 clypeus being transverse. The genus Zetlius seems to be rare in 

 Africa. 



