298 Albany Museum Records. 



Length 15 mm. 



Brak Kloof. Mrs. G. White. 



Front and vertex with fine, scattered pnnctures, the centre of 

 front more closely and coarsely punctured on the lower half. 

 Pi'onotum finely, but not closely punctured, the apical half of the 

 pronotum smooth. Middle lobe of mesonotum smooth at the base, 

 the rest moderately clOvSely and strongly punctured. Scutellum 

 punctured round the sides ; the apical half of post-scutellum more 

 closely i)unctured. Metanotum closely, finely punctured except 

 for a strip,e on the basal half, this being wide at the base ; the 

 apical slope in the centre closely, obliquely striated. Pro- and 

 metapleurre smooth and almost bare ; the mesopleurae punctured 

 and pilose. Apical segments of abdomen closely, finely punctured; 

 the pygidium piceous red, its base fringed with long, bright rufous 

 hair. Second transverse cubital nervure very obliquely sloped: 

 apex of radial cellule sharply pointed ; the apex of radius straight, 

 olilique. 



Plesla mfo-femorata, sp. nov. 



Black, densely covered with long white hair, apex of clypeus 

 broadly, mandibles to near the teeth, palpi, a small mark on the 

 apex of the 2nd abdominal segment, a longer one on the apex of 

 the )3rd, and 2 small ones in its centre, a curved line dilated in the 

 centre on the 4th, a similar one, but interrupted in the middle, on 

 the 5th, and 2 oblique spots in the centre of the Gth, white. Legs 

 black, the femora red ; the posterior black at the apex, the 4 hind 

 til:)ife red in front, the anterior white in front ; the tarsi more or 

 less reddish l)elow ; the calcaria pale. Wings hyaline, the nervures 

 and stigma black ; the 3rd and 4th abscissae of radius equal in 

 lengh, the 2nd not much shorter. Male. 



Length 12-13 mm. 



O'okiep. September. Rev. J. A. O'Neil, S.J. 



Head coarsely rugosely punctured, the punctures running 

 into reticulations in the centre of the vertex. Apex of clypeus 

 broadly rounded. Pro- and mesonotum closely and strongly 

 punctured, except the apical half of the middle lobe of the 

 mesonotum, whicli is raised and boi-dered by distinct furrows 



