164 Albany Museum Records. 



ing the scutellar depression has a hyaline, oval spot in the centre, 

 or it may be a hole. 



The female of this genus I do not know ; but the male may 

 be readily known from any of the described genera by the 

 pyramidal scutellum, raised in the centre, with the cup-shaped 

 depression on the apical slope and not visible from above. 



Bothrochacis erythropoda, sp. nov. 



Black, smooth and shining ; the flagellum of antennae dark 

 red ; the legs and abdomen of a clearer, brighter red ; the wings 

 dark smoky to the areolet (which is open below) ; the radial 

 cellule clear hyaline, the nervures black ; the basal abscissa of 

 radius straight, two-thirds of the length of apical, which is roundly 

 curved ; a curved, thick spurious nervure extends backwards to 

 the transverse basal nervure ; the cubitus faint, thin, not extending 

 much beyond the middle. Abdominal hair fringe dark white. 

 Legs sparsely covered with white hair. Male. 



Length 4 mm. 



Grahamstown. November : Misses Daly and Sole. 



BRACONID^. 



Iphiaulax soJew, sp. nov. 



Vermillion-red ; the head, except the face, oral region, inner 

 orbits, the outer except for an oblique mark below the middle, 

 lower half of the propleurse, a large mark on the mesopleurfe, 

 rounded at the base and. apex and with its basal half obliquely 

 dilated upwards and a large mark in the centre of the metapleurue, 

 black ; wings almost uniformly dark fuscous ; costal and the 1st 

 cubital cellule paler ; the costa and stigma black. Female. 



Length 9 ; terebra 2 mm. 



Grahamstown : Misses Daly and Sole. 



Antennae stouter than usual . Front not much depressed ; its 

 furrow wide and deep. Maxillary palpi testaceous. Central area 



