220 Albany Museum Records. 



I am not sure but that this species may be Pomp his ignitus, 

 Sm. (Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus. iii, 142) from the ''Interior of South 

 Africa." The description of the median segment " rounded ' 

 behind, does not tit the transverse apex of my species. The 

 description otherwise is incomplete : the head is said to be entirely 

 ferruginous ; but my specimene show variations in its colour : it 

 is black for the greater i)art in all the Sj:>ecinjens. 



In Dr. Ashmead's arrangement it comes nearest to P(j)n/ji/u- 

 gastra, Ashm., the type of which is an American species. 



Poinp/liodes Beckeri, sp. uov. 



Black, covered with grey pile, the head thickly with long 

 black hair: the apical two-thirds of hind femora and hind tibia3 

 red ; wings hyaline, highly iridescent, suffused slightly with 

 fuscous ; the ai)ex of both wings distinctly clouded, the anterior 

 from the end of the radius : antennal scajjc yellowish, the basal 

 joints of fiagellum brownish below. Male. 



Length 9 mm. 



Grahamstown. January. Dr. H. IJecker. 



Eyes converging above, separated there by the length of the 

 3rd and -Itli antennal joints united. Hind ocelli separated from 

 each other by the same length they are from the eyes. Apex of 

 clypeus transverse in the middle. Pronotum not quite so long as 

 the m.esonotum. Apex of m.etanotum truncate, densely covei'ed 

 with dark grey pubescence. Abdominal segments with grey 

 primrose bands, the last segment pale. First recun-ent nervure 

 received not far from the apex, the 2nd in the middle of the 

 cellule. 



The interstitial transverse basal nervure in fore wings, cubitus 

 in hind, })etioiated Ih'd cubital cellule, A:c., refer this species to 

 Pompiliodes as now defined. 



Saliiis WJiiteanus, sp. nov. 



Claws with 1 tooth. Deep black; the head, thorax and apex 

 of abdomen thickly covered with black pubescence ; wings 

 fuscous-violaceeus, iridescent, the nervures and stigma black. 

 Male. 



