18 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



second near its apex; marginal cell pointed; basal nervnre not reach- 

 ing transverso-medial ; femora somewhat dusky basally ; abdomen 

 with a purple lustre, and somewhat infuscated at base and apex ; 

 apical plate projecting, rounded. 



Hah. W.Australia; "47.109." At first sight one would 

 take this for a small ichneumonid, but it is a true bee. The 

 very large second submarginal cell is peculiar, and the species 

 is one of several which for different reasons will be eventually 

 removed from Euryglossa. 



Erratum. — ' Entomologist,' February, 1905, p. 37, line 16, 

 for "it has gigantic ocelli, such as are not seen," read "it has 

 not gigantic ocelli, such as are seen." 



DESCEIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF ICHNEU- 

 MONIDyE FEOM CAPE COLONY. 



By p. Cameron. 



Asphragis ? flavo-orbitalis, sp. nov. 



Kufo-testaceous ; the eye orbits broadly, face, clypeus, mandibles 

 except at the apex, where they are black, the pleuraB and the apices of 

 the abdominal segments narrowly, yellow ; the flagellum of the 

 antennfe black ; wings hyaline, the stigma testaceous, the costa and 

 nervures black. Female. Length of body and ovipositor 5 mm. 



Head smooth, the face weakly punctured, almost bare. Malar 

 space as long as the antennal scape. Thorax closely punctured, 

 almost bare. The mesonotum and scutellum are yellow ; the former 

 has a broad brown line down the centre of the basal half and one on 

 the sides, commencing behind the middle and extending to the apex. 

 Metauotum transversely punctured ; there is a smooth line down the 

 centre ; the apex is smooth ; behind it is bordered by a keel. First 

 abdominal segment smooth, its apex finely closely striated ; the second 

 more strongly striated ; the striae are close and extend near to the 

 apex ; the third is minutely closely punctured ; the other segments 

 are smooth. Cerci and sheaths of ovipositor black. The recurrent 

 nervure is received at a greater distance than the length of the trans- 

 verse cubital nervure from the latter ; the transverse median distinctly 

 beyond the transverse basal ; the recurrent nervure is largely bullated 

 in front. The apical nervures in the hind wings are obsolete ; the 

 transverse median is unbroken. 



This agrees fairly well, generically, with the species I have 

 described (Trans. South African Phil. Soc. xv. p. 201) as 

 Asphragis ? rufipes ; but in the present species I cannot detect 

 any pectinations on the claws. If not an Asphragis, there is no 

 described genus to which it can be referred. 



