310 Albany Museurn Becof^ds. 



CHALOIDID^. 



Phasgonophora rufo-ornata, sp. nov. 



Black, densely covered with long white pubescence ; the front 

 and vertex outside the gioove, the lower half of the outer eye 

 orbits broadly, the propleurse, the part bordering the middle lobe 

 of the pronotum, the sides and apex of the scutellum, and the 

 centre of the propleuras l)roadly rufous. Legs rufous, the femora 

 and tibiae largely black ; the hind femora with 9 teeth. Wings 

 hyaline, the nervures black. Female. 



Length nearly 8 mm. 



Museum Grounds. Grahamstown. December. 



Antennae longish of uniform thickness, the apex of scape and 

 base of flagellum rufous. Head in front rugosely reticulated- 

 punctured ; the antennal depression in the centre closely, strongly 

 striated ; the outer orbits sparsely punctured. Pronotum at apex 

 broadly depressed in the centre ; the sides broadly rounded ; the 

 basal slope transversely striated, the striae becoming stronger 

 towards the apex. Mesonotum strongly transversely striated, the 

 strife curved ; those on the base of the lateral lobes finer and 

 closer. Scutellum coarsely transversely reticulated ; its apex 

 bluntly rounded, almost transverse. Metanotum with a double 

 row of arese, the basal the lai'ger. Pleurae reticulated, the meta- 

 pleurae more strongly than the rest ; the meso- widely, deeply 

 depressed in the middle from near the top ; the centre of depres- 

 sion closely striated, the sides smcoth ; the sides of median segment 

 are broadly rounded and witli a tooth — stout and narrowed 

 towards the apex — in the centre. Basal segment of the abdomen 

 not quite as long as the other segments (not counting the oviposi- 

 tor) united ; above it is closely, irregularly longtitudinally, finely 

 striated ; the apices of the segments, laterally, are i-ufous. Except 

 the apical 4 (which are also smaller) the femora teeth are clearly 

 separated, distinct, regular and l)luntly rounded. The hind coxae 

 and trochanters are, united, nearly as long as the femora. 



I have in my collection from the Cape a specimen which is 

 larger than the above (10 mm. to the end of the ovipositor) ; it is 

 more largely marked with red, the scape of the antennae being 



