41^ Albany Museum Records. 



Oil the Hyneaoptera of the Albany Museum, Grahamstowa, Cape 

 Colony. 



By p. Cameron. 



(Fourth Paper.)* 



CHRYSIDIDAE. 



He.rai-Jirysis tvhiteana, nov. sp. 



Front, vertex and upper part of tliorax purpk^, the lace, cly- 

 peus, occiput and pleurae dark green ; the basal 2 segments of the 

 abdomen blue, largely green in the middle and at the apex ; the 

 basal half of the 3rd blue, tinged with purple, the apical dark 

 green. Legs for the greater part purple, the tarsi black. Antennal 

 scape purple, the flagellum black. Wings hyaline, the base of the 

 radial cellule and of the costal cellule smoky, the cloud in the 

 latter being continued into the discoidal. Female. 



Head as wide as the thorax, the front thickly covered with 

 depressed white pubescence ; the temples very short, the occiput 

 rounded ; the hair is long, dense and white ; the punctuation 

 coarse and close. Oral region and mandibles black, tinged with 

 violaceous. Pronotum not half the length of the mesonotum ; its 

 sides at the base rounded ; it becomes gradually wider towards the 

 apex. Parapsidal furrows distinct. Scutellum and post-scutel- 

 lum rounded, the former on a level with the mesonotum. The 

 apex of the post-scutelliim broadly rounded. The 1st and 2nd seg- 

 ments of the abdomen are closely, but not very strongly punc- 

 tured, the 1st with some larger punctures in the middle of the 

 apex ; the 2nd not keeled in the middle. The 3rd is much more 

 strongly and closely punctured, the teeth are long and sharp- 

 pointed ; there are four lateral foveas and one much larger and 

 deeper in the centre ; it being also clearly separated from the smaller 



*The descriptions of new species here published, form a portion of a list 

 (with synonyms) of the S.A. Hyiuenoptera in the collection of the Albany 

 Museum. The publication of this list is held over for the present, as a 

 /arge amount of material has recently come to hand which has not yet been 

 submitted to Mr. Cameron. 8. Sch. 



