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becomes stouter towards the apex ; there are 3 or 4 transverse 

 striae at the top of the apical slope. The l 3t and 2 D<1 and the 3 rd seg- 

 ment of the abdomen to near the apex are closely, strongly striated; 

 there is a transverse furrow at the base of the apical third of the 

 2 nd segment and a roundly curved one at the base of the 3 rd . The 

 longitudinal furrow on the mesopleura? is smooth ; the apex is irre- 

 gularly crenulated. 2 nd cubital cellule in front half the width of 

 what it is behind; the hinder part of the 2 nd transverse cubital ner- 

 vure is narrowed and almost straight. 



Braunsia fulvicollis sp. n. — Black, shining, the head and 

 prothorax and fore legs reddish fulvous, as are also the palpi and 

 mandibles; the middle tibias fuscous in front; wings uniformly dark 

 fuscous, the stigma and nervures black; the fore half of the 2 nd 

 transverse cubital nervure oblique, the hinder straight, not nar- 

 rowed. Basai 2 abdominal segments and the 3 ,d to near the apex 

 strongly, closely regularly striated. On the middle of the metanotum 

 is a keel running from the base to the top of the apical slope; there 

 is a weak, curved keel on either side of it, and the sides are mar- 

 gined by a keel. $. 



Length 10 mill.; terebra 10 mill. 



Dima, 23 nd September (A. Koller). 



Antenna? densely covered with short stiff, the legs with longer 

 black hair. The middle tibia? and tarsi and the apex of the femora 

 are brownish in front. 



Xanthomicrodus pallidinervis sp. n, — Testaceous, den- 

 sely covered with white pubescence; the antenna?, apex of hind 

 tibia? and the hind tarsi black; wings hyaline, the stigma in front 

 and the costa black, the hinder part of the stigma fuscous, the 

 nervures pale testaceous, the areolet narrowed in front, the ner- 

 vures roundly curved. Ovipositor as long as the hind spurs, black, 

 brownish at the apex. Metanotum with a large central basai area, 

 followed by 2 rows of area? of 7 each, the basai row with the area? 

 squarish, of equal width, the 2 nd row with them narrowed towards 

 the apex. Ç. 



Length 7 mill. 



Kitobola (Rovere). 



Mesonotum sparsely the metapleura? more strongly and closely 

 punctured. 



The species differs from the type of the genus from Cape Colony 

 (À', iridipennis Gam.) in the apex of the hind tibia? and the hind tarsi 



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