Hymenoptera. 239 



of mesopletirae nari-owly. of the mesostenium more broadly, a line 

 on the upper ]«ii-t of the mesopleurse, a Ijroader, irregular one on 

 the apex, the sides of the metapleuras and metanotum on the basal 

 two-thirds, except for a yellow mark, about twice longer than 

 broad, and the sides and base of the 1st abdomen segment at the 

 yellow part, black. Four front legs yellow ; the fore trochanters 

 and base of femoi-a marked above with black : the hind legs 

 rufous, tinged with yellow : the coxje and trochanters yellow : the 

 coxiB broadly black to near the ap^x on the inaerside, more 

 narrowly on the outer to shortly beyond the middle of the base of 

 the ti'ochanters, black. Wings hyaline, the stigma and costa 

 testaceous, the nervures black ; there is a large fuscous oval 

 cloud in the centre of the apex : areolet triangular, the pedicle 

 about one half longer than the lower branches which are equal 

 in length. Female. 



Length 20 mm. ; terebra 10 naim. 



Grahamstown. Misses Daly and Sole. March. 



Antennte black, brownish below at the apex, the scape marked 

 with yellow in the middle. Head closely and distinctly punctured, 

 the front and vertex much more closely and strongly than the 

 face : the clypeus smooth. Mandibles and palpi yellow, the teeth 

 black. Thorax strongly, closely and uniformly punctured, except 

 the base of the propleurae, which is smooth. Abdomen closely 

 and finely punctured ; there is a deep pyriform fovea near the 

 apex of the 1st segment. The recurrent nervure is received in the 

 apical third of the cellule. 



Lissonuta sj)ihj,stoma, sp. nov. 



Black, the head, except the centre of the vertex and front. 3 

 small marks in a curve on the top of the clypeus and the greater 

 part of the vertex, the mesonotum except a large mark, rounded at 

 the apex, in the centre of the basal two-thirds, the sides along 

 the apical two-thirds, the apex in the centre more narrowly, a 

 conical mark on the base of the scutellum, the base, top and apex 

 of mesopleurae, the basal line conically dilated at the apex below ; 

 a large mark on the sides of the median segment at the base, the 



