192 Alhmiy Museum Records. 



Length H mm. 



Museum Grounds. Grahamstown. — Brak Kloof. Mi-s. (i. 

 White. 



Head and thorax closely, but not strongly punctured : the 

 clypeus with larwi-, more widely separated punctures; the front 

 and face thickly covered with longish hair. Scutellum slightly 

 depressed in the middle. Metanotal area closely, finely reticulated, 

 smooth along the edges. Abdomen smooth, shining ; anal rima 

 smooth, piceous, bordei-ed by fulvous pubescence. Male antennae 

 stout, bi'ownish beneath ; the last joint acutely pointed at the apex- 

 The pubescence on the head and thorax is probably normally 

 fulvous, becoming grey with agf. 



Sficfononiia, gen. nov. 



Male. Scutellum laterally at the apex projecting into a stout 

 spine, whicli is nearly as long as the scutellum, originates from the 

 base and becomes narrowed towards the apex, which is bluntly 

 rounded. Thorax and abdomen strongly, deeply punctured, the 

 abdominal depressions covered with depressed white pile. 

 Tegulfe very large. Hind femora not much swollen. Antennae 

 simple. Middle tibiaj with a long spine. Wings as in Nomia. 



The affinities of this genus or sub-genus are clearly 

 with .Voinia from whicli and Paranomia, and Roj/- 

 lonumia it may be known by the strongly spined scutellum 

 which is not depressed in the middle. Hoplonomia has the 

 post-scutellum spined ; but the spines are much shorter and more 

 slender than the scutellar spines in this genus. The body is much 

 more strongly punctured than it is in Nomia. 



Stictonoinia jninctata, sp. nov. 



Black, densely covered with longish white pubescence, the 

 flagellum of antennae rufous, darker towards the apex, the legs 

 except the coxae and trochanters, of a brighter red, the femora 

 darker behind ; wings hyaline, the stigma and nervures blackish. 

 Tegulae dark rufous, the flattened apical part whitish. Apical half 

 of mandibles dark piceous. Ventral surface rufous, brighter 

 coloured on the sides. Male. 



