186 Albany Museum Hecords. 



Bdlictas i ridicol<)i\ sp. nov. 



Dark green, thickly covered witli fulvous pubescence on the 

 head and thorax, with white on the abdomen ; the front and 

 vertex blue, streaked with violet ; the mesonotum, scutelhira and 

 base of metanotum rosy red, streaked with blue. Legs black, 

 thickly covered with white hair, the 4 anterior tibiae and tai'si 

 testaceous in front. Wings hyaline, the stigma and nei-vures 

 pallid testaceous. Antenna? black, the flagellum brownish below. 

 Female. 



Length 8 mm. 



Brak Kloof. Mrs. G. White. 



Base of metanotum closely, minutely i)unctui"ed, the centi-al 

 area less strongly than the sides.. Clypeus strongly, but not 

 closely punctured; the face slightly punctured. Mandibles 

 broadly rufo-testaceous in the centre. The hair on the face and 

 clypeus long and white. Head and thoi-ax closely and strongly 

 punctured ; the abdomen minutely punctured : the I'ima dai-k 

 rufous. 



A rol)ust species. 



Ealictus hidens, sp. nov. 



Black : the head, thorax and ventral surface of abdomen 

 thickly covered with long grey hair, that on the mesonotum mixed 

 with l)lack. Wings hyaline, the stigma fuscous, the nervures 

 blackish ; the 3rd cubital cellule narrowed in front, shorter than 

 the 2nd, the 3rd transverse cubital nervure roundly, broadly 

 curved, the 1st recurrent nervure almost interstitial. Apex of 

 clypeus transverse, the sides projecting into stout teeth. Metanotal 

 area stoutly keeled behind, closely, strongly longitudinally striated- 

 Head and thorax not distinctly i)unctured, the lower half of 

 metapleurai closely, finely obliquely striated. Apex of clypevis 

 with a deep, longei- than wide depression in the centre, wider 

 towards the apex ; the sides bordering it stoutly, irregularly 

 striated. Malar space large. Abdomen smooth, the base shining ; 

 tjie apical segment above sparsely covered with longish black hair ; 

 rima blackish, bordered with i-ufous. 



Length 8 mm. 



Salem. R WebJjer. November. 



