196 Albany Museum Records. 



sternum white, tinged with rufous : the apices of abdominal 

 segments narrowly fringed with white ; the scopa bright ferru- 

 ginous ; the hair on the legs white, on the inner side of the tarsi 

 rufous ; wings hyaline, slightly tinged with fuscous-violaceous ; 

 the nervures and stigma black. Female. 



Length 10-11 mm. ; breadth 3 mm. 



Brak Kloof. Mrs. G. White. 



Mandibles 3-dentate ; the second gradually narrowed from the 

 base to the apex : the space between it and the apical rounded : 

 the third bluntly rounded ; the space between it and the second 

 roundly curved ; except on the three ridges on the apical half they 

 are strongly, closely punctured. Clypeus strongly, closely 

 punctured, more widely in the centre, where the punctui-es run 

 into striae ; the apex is transverse, smooth, depressed, slightly 

 waved in the centre. Front and vertex closely punctured. Pro- 

 and mesothorax closely and strongly punctured. Metanotum 

 alutaceous, the basal area closely striated at the base. Basal two 

 segments of abdomen sparsel}', the others closely and more strongly 

 punctured. Apex of tibia3 about one-fourth wider than the base 

 of metatarsus. Tegulae deep black, shining. 



MegacMle spiniscutis, sp. nov. 



Black, strongly and closely punctured all over. The lower 

 part of front, face, clypeus and lower part of outer orbits thickly 

 covered with white pubescence ; the basal abdominal segments 

 banded with depressed white pile. Wings hyaline, slightly tinged 

 with fuscous ; the stigma and nervures black. Male. 



Length nearly 6 mm. 



Brak Kloof. Mrs. G. White. 

 Mandibles bidentate, the second tooth short and bluntly rounded, 

 their base strongly punctured, the lower half more closely than 

 the upper. Metanotum opaque, coarsely alutaceous. Legs covered 

 with white hair ; the calcaria rufo-testaceous, the fore tibite on the 

 upper side at the apex slightly projecting ; the coxae not spined. 

 Apex of last abdominal segment bluntly rounded, depressed, not 

 incised. On the base of the scutellum at the sides is a stout, 

 curved spine, broad at the base, gradually narrowed towards the 

 apex. 



