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Iphiaulax Stanleyi sp. n. — Black, the thorax, anterior legs, 

 middle coxae, trochanters, femora and base of tibiae red, the fore 

 tibise and tarsi infuscated in front; the l st abdominal segment 

 broadly dark red in the middle; the lower part of the malar space 

 and clypeus edged with red ; mandibles of a deeper red, the teeth 

 black; palpi reddish testaceous, covered with white pubescence ; 

 wings fuscous violaceous ; the récurrent nervure almost inters- 

 tilial. l sf abdominal segment smooth, the 2 ncl finely striated to the 

 latéral furrows, which, at the base, are more strongly transversely 

 striated; the apex is smooth; the 3 r(1 is more finely striated, weaker 

 and more irregularly on the outerside than in the centre and 

 reaching to the apex; there are wide, closely crenulated furrows 

 on the base and apex of the 3 rd to 5 fh segments, with smooth apical 

 latéral furrows; the ventral surface white, with moderately sized 

 black latéral marks on the segments. Sheath of ovipositor pilose, 

 the pile short and black on the basai three-fourths, longer, denser 

 and white on the apical. Temples wide, not very oblique. Occiput 

 transverse. $. 



Length 17 mill.; terebra 23 mill. 



Léopoldville. 



Bracon lembaensis sp. n. — Testaceous, the head lighter 

 in tint than the rest; the flagellum of antennse black, the basai 

 joints fuscous below; there are 33 joints; wings hyaline, highly 

 iridescent, the stigma fuscous, the nervures darker coloured ; the 

 récurrent nervure received half its length from the transverse 

 cubital ; the 3 nl abscissa of radius as long as the basai 2 united. 

 Abdomen finely rugose, the basai 3 segments almost striated ; the 

 area on 2"' 1 segment almost semicircular, large, its apex reaching 

 to the base of the apical third of the segment, the furrow bounding 

 it weakly cienulated; thèse are no latéral furrows ; the suturiform 

 articulation is the only transverse one and it is narrow, $. 



Length 3 mill.; terebra 1 mill. 



Congo de Lemba, April (R. Mayné). 



Temples half the length of the top of the eyes, roundly narrowed, 

 the occiput transverse. Abdomen a little wider than the thorax and 

 as long as it. The antennse are longer than the body and hardly 

 taper lowards the apex. 



SPATHIIN^E. 



Rhopalospathius gen. nov. — Ilead large, cubital, the front, 

 and vertex widely, deeply depressed, the sides raised into broad, 

 rounded lobes; temples broad, the vertex and cheeks margined. 

 Mesonotum very distinctly trilobate; the latéral widely separated by 



