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centre black. The hinder parts of the transverse cubital nervures are testaceous, 3. transverse cubital nervure is 

 obliquely sloped in front, the rest broadly, roundly curved. Abdominal segments not depressed. 



The propleural projection is large, the apex broad, rounded and clearly separated. On tlie base of the 

 abdominal segments are bands of depressed pubescence. 



Kapland. 



Halietus duponti Vach. 

 1903 Halidus duponti Vachal, $, in: Ann. Soc. eut. France, T. LXXII, p. 389. 



?. Aureo-viridis, mandibulis, labro, clypeo utrinque, scapo toto, callo, tegularum parte postica alarum 

 basi, pedibus cum coxis, limbo tenui et parte reflexa segmentorum rufis. Segmenti medialis area dorsalis nuda, 

 postica et abdominis dorsum tomento albo vestita, de reliquo albescente hispidus, scopa tibiali fulvida. Caput 

 parvum sat latum, orbitis internis deorsum convergentibus, una cum mesonoto tenuissime scabriusculum, ocellis 

 posticis inter se fere magis quam ab oculo remotis. Area dorsalis segmenti medialis valde rugulosa, angulis 

 posticis pronis; area analis margine circumducta. Alae vitreae, nervis flavis. Calcar spinis basali longa, media 

 brevi, apicali obsoleta. L. 6V2 mm. 



I ? de Beni Bendi Saukuru (Afrique?), Museum Bruxelles. 



Afrika? 



Halietus evanidtis Vach. 

 1908 Halietus evanidus Vachal, $, in: Ann. Soc. ent. France, T. LXXII, p. 393. 



?. Virescens metallicus, mandibulis basi, tegulis genubus, tibiis, tarsis rima anali rufis. Alae vitreae, 

 nervis flavis, in cellula cubitali 2 obsoletis. Orbitae internae deorsum convergentes ; mesonotum sub pube griseo- 

 fulvida sine nitore; segmenti medialis area dorsali nuda lucida, strigulosa, area anali circum marginata. 



Cellula cubitalis 3 secus nervum cubitalem sesquilongior quam 2. Calcar 4—5 pectinatum. L. 6 mm. 



I ? de Libreville 20. VIII. 1897 (BouYSSOU), coli. Vachal. 



Kongo. 



Halietus fascialis Sm. 



1853 Halietus fascialis Smith, cf, in: Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus., Vol. I, p. 52. 



(S. Black, the face covered with hoary pubescence, the antennae submoniliform, thorax closely and 

 finely punctured, below the postscuteUum a space finely longitudinally, rugose behind which is an abbreviated 

 shining ridge ; the anterior tibiae in front and the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous, posterior tibiae and tarsi 

 covered with short silvery pubescence ; wings subhyaline, the nervures ferruginous, tegulae rufo-piceous. Abdomen 

 elongate, the margins of tlic 2 basal segments depressed and bright rufo-testaceous, as is the entire abdomen 

 beneath, above closely and finely punctured. L. 3 lines = {b^j., mm). 



Kap. Coli. Saundeks. 



Halietus fet'inus Cam. 

 1905 Halietus ferinus Cameron, $, in: Rec. Albany Mus., Vol. I, p. 190. 



?. Black, the hair white, the clypcus fringed with golden hair; antennae dcep black; wings hj'aline, the 

 ner\-ures and stigma black; the 2nd cubital cellule two-thirds of the leiigth of the 3rd; the ist recurrent nervure 

 received shortly in front of the transverse cubital, almost interstitial ; the 2nd reaping-hookshaped, received at a 



