Hymcnopfprn. 219 



In Ashmead's arrangement this species would run near 

 Schiztosal/its, but the pronotum is not obtusely or arcuately 

 eraarginate as in that genus and in Sophroponipiliix. 



Athjpliufi f P(i)/i/)i/oga.str(i?) eri/throurus, .syy. nov. 



Black : the clypeus. face and orliits narrowly dark rufous : 

 the antennae, apical third of fejnora, tibias and tarsi, reddish 

 yellow ; wings yellowish hyaline, the base and apex narrowly 

 smoky ; the apical 3 segments of the abdomen dark rufous. 

 Male and female. 



Length, male IG, female 22-27 mm. 

 ' Brak Kloof. Mrs. G. White. 



The ord cubital cellule in front a1;)out one-fourth shorter than 

 the 2nd ; 1st I'ecurrent nervure i-eceived not far from the ape.x of 

 the cellule ; the 2nd shortly l)eyond the midille ; transverse 

 median nervure received shortly beyond the transverse basal ; the 

 1st and 2nd transverse cubital nervures straight, oblique, parallel: 

 the 3rd roundly bent towards the 2nd in front ; cubitus in hind 

 wings originating before the ti-ansverse median nervure. Apex of 

 clypeus slightly roundly incised : the labrum with a wide furrow 

 in the centre, the furrow narrowed aljove. Head roundly narrowed 

 behind ; the eyes slightly converging above, separated there by 

 about the length of the '.Wd antennal joint. Hind ocelli sei)arated 

 from each other by the same distance they are from the eyes. 

 Fore tarsi, strongly combed on the outer side, stout, the 2nd joint 

 about one-third the length of the basal : claws with a tooth near 

 the base ; in male almost bitid. Sides of mesonotum depressed. 

 Apex of metanotum transverse, with a slightly oblique slope : the 

 base with a shallow longitudinal furrow on the apical half. 

 Tibite spai-sely, tarsi thickly spinose : the long spur of hind tibia3 

 one-third of the length of metatarsus. 



The head is clearly longer than wide. Mandibles dark rufous, 

 black along the apex. Palpi rufo-testaceous. Apex of pronotum 

 roundly arcuate. The head probably varies considerably in the 

 amount of rufous colour it bears above. In the male tiie antennae 

 are stout, short, not much longer than the head and thorax united ; 

 their 3rd and 4t]i joints are equal in length : the 3rd segment of 

 the abdomen is red, not black as in the female. 



