Hi/menoptera. 151 



basal 3 joints of tarsi. There is a pale narrow cloud in the 1st 

 cubital cellule, and a wider, shorter one beyond it in the discoidal 

 cellule. Front with a deep, opaque furrow extending from the 

 antennae to near the apex. 



Allied to /. natalensis, Szep. 



Tphinula.v clann^, sj). nov. 



Ferruginous : the front half of vertex, the posterior part of 

 front, the band roundly dilated in the middle, the antennae and 

 apex of mandibles, black ; wings light fuscous, the 1st cubital 

 cellule almost hyaline; the basal two-thirds of the stigma pale 

 ochraceous; the costa and nervures black. Female. 



Length 6, terebra 1 mm. 



Face covered with white pubescence, irregularly wrinkled. 

 Scape of antennae covered with white hair, shining, about 3 times 

 longer than broad, narrowed towards the base : 3rd joint narrowed 

 at the base, slightly longer than the 4th. Abdomen broadly oval, 

 fully longer than the head and thorax united : the raised central 

 part coarsely, irregularly, longitudinally striated, with finer, 

 irregular transverse striae ; its sides depressed, almost smooth, 

 pale yellow and bordered outwardly, the keel with an oblique, 

 straight slope at the base and tuberculated outwards above ; the 

 sides, outside this, are depressed, pale yellow, broad at the apex. 

 The central part of the 2nd segment is square, bounded laterally 

 by a straight keel ; the basal area is large, longer than broad, 

 obliquely narrowed at the apex, smooth and shining : the sides 

 are closely striated, the striae more curved and clearly separated at 

 the base than at the apex ; the 3rd, -4th and 5th segments are 

 closely, longitudinally striated, the apices of the segments smooth: 

 transverse furrows wide, deep and closely striated. Apical seg- 

 ments smooth, pale yellow. The 3rd abscissa of radius as long as 

 the basal 2 united ; the recurrent nervure received in apex of 1st 

 cubital cellule. 



Tphinula.r ruhnlineofi's, sp. nov. 



Black; the lower part of the face on the sides, oral region, 

 malar space on the sides and apex rufo-testaceous ; thorax rufous: 

 2 narrow lines on the 2nd abdominal segment, bordering the area 

 and extending from the base to the apex, suturiform articulation, 

 except in the centre ; the following 2 furrows in the centre, a 



