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Head and thorax covered with a pale pubescence, closeily, 

 minutely punctured ; the nietanotum at the base closely (Obscurely 

 reticulated. The dilated apex of petiole finely, closely, longitudin- 

 ally striated ; it becomes gradually widened towards the apex and 

 bears tracheal grooves. The recurrent nervure is interstitial ; the 

 2nd cubital cellule is of almost equal width. In length the jjctiole 

 is about '6 times longer than its width at the apex. Scutellar 

 depression wide, of almost equal width, deep, an indistinct keel in 

 the centre. Head hardly so wide as the thorax, the temples 

 roundly contracted. 



Rhogas capenfiis, sp. nov. 



Rufo-testaceous, the antennae, ocellar space — the mai"k square 

 —the tarsi and the hind tibia?, black : wings clear hyaline, 

 iridescent, the stigma and nervures black. Male. 



Length 9 mm. 



Graliamstown. October. Misses Daly and Sole. 



Thorax finely, closely rugose ; the mesopleurae distinctly 

 punctured. Parapsidal furrows wide ; the middle lobe of 

 mesonotum clearly separated : the apex of the mesonotum 

 depressed. Scutellum roundly (;onvex, narrowed towards the 

 apex. Metanotum irregularly wrinkled ; a keel down the middle;, 

 the apical slope is closely, irregularly reticulated. Abdomen 

 irregularly, longitudinally striated : the basal two segments keeled 

 down the centre. The 2nd cubital cellule is almost square, the 

 transverse cubital nervures parallel, not converging ; the first is 

 pale at the bottom : the 2nd pale except at the top and bottom. 

 The middle tibiae are infuscated. 



EVANIID^. 

 Evania Schonlandi, sp. nov. 

 Black, the fiagellum of antennae, the apex of femora, tibia; 

 and tarsi testaceous, the tarsi darker coloured than the tibiae • 

 wings clear hyaline, the nervures and stigma black, the cubitus 

 and radius paler-coloured. , Male. 

 Length 4 mm. 

 Teafontein. MissLeppan. 



