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Parastephayiellus lavicollis, sp. nov. 



? . Head finely and evenly trans-striate ; vertex coarsely trans- 

 carinate, temples smooth and shining ; posterior margin of head 

 bordered ; cheeks smooth, and a little longer than scape. Antennae 

 with second flagellar joint half as long again as first, the third half as 

 long again as second. Prothoi-ax with neck very short and smooth ; 

 semiannulate part smooth, with a few fine punctures, as also is the 

 mesonotum. Scutellum quite smooth, divided from mesonotum by 

 crenulate lines. Mesopleurge and metapleurte obsoletely shagreened, 

 not punctate, the latter separated from metanotum by a basally 

 obsolete carina ; median segment centrally smooth, apically rugulose, 

 and basally with a few large punctures. Abdomen smooth, with 

 petiole very finely transaciculate, shorter than remainder ; second 

 ■segment basally somewhat elongately attenuate ; abdomen 5 mm. in 

 length, petiole 2, and the black terebra 11 mm., longer than body. 

 Hind legs with coxae transaciculate, their femora smooth, with a few 

 setiferous punctures ; tibiae longer than femora, constricted to their 

 centre. Wings hyaline, with the stigma and nervures piceous. — 

 Black : antennae and palpi infuscate ; base of antennae, mandibles, 

 except apically, clypeus and frons fulvous ; face and whole external 

 orbits and all the tarsi whitish. 



(J differs in having the whole head except the whitish external 

 orbits a dull red ; base of occiput nitidulous ; the basal flagellar 

 joints longer, though in the same proportion, propleurte dull tes- 

 taceous, anterior femora and tibiae piceous. 



Length, (^ $ , 9 mm. 



A single pair of this bright species has been taken in the 

 Ding-Ding Island of the Indian Ocean during 1896 and 1900 ; 

 these are now in the British Museum. 



Neostephanus Pentheri, Kieflf. 



' Bull. See. HiBt. Nat. Metz.,' ser. 3, iii, 1911, p. 101, (J. 



The type of this species was captured by Dr. Penther at Zerua in 

 South Africa during November. In the British Museum is a second, 

 which considerably extends the known range, since it was captured 

 in (doubtless on the coast of) Angola in Central West Africa by 

 J. J. Monteiro about 1873. The mesopleurce are closely granulose, 

 dull, and the metapleurae shining, trans-striate, and above, carinate. 



Stephanus pachylomerus, Schlett. 



' Berl. Ent. Zeit.,' xxxiii, 1889, p. 98, ? . 



Scbletterer records the type from Gaboon ; the Imperial 

 Bureau has received two females from the Gold Coast: one 

 taken by A. E. Evans in 1913 and the other at Aburi by W. H. 

 Patterson during 1912-13. 



