Aiypcndix. 545 



Head and tliorax coar.^ely closely punctured, cribrate, the wide deep 

 antennal groove on the face, and the mesopleurse transversely striate, 

 the scutellum broad and convex above, posteriorly bidentate, the 

 postscutellum and median segment shining, the latter areolated and 

 bearing a strong tooth on each side ; legs finely punctured opaque, 

 abdomen smooth and shining. The sides of the broad vertical 

 furrow on the front of the head, the cheeks and the metapleurae 

 covered densely with long white hairs, the legs and the rest of the 

 head and thorax with sparse shining white pubescence. Wings dark 

 fuscous with a purple iridescence in certain lights. 

 Length ^ 9 m.m. ; exp. 17 m.m. 



^a5. Salisbury, 5000 feet, Mashonaland, South Africa. 



Bears a superficial resemblance to G. scmirnfa, Walker, 

 froti) the Oriental Region, but in sculpture and in the 

 distribution of colour widely different. 



Type in the Hope Museum, Oxford. . 



Iphiaulax ruher, sp. nov. (PI. XXIII, f 31.) 



9 . Red, the front below tlie antennse, the head above, the cheeks, 

 except a narrow line behind the eyes, tha antennae, the apex of the 

 mandibles and the claws black ; wings fusco-violaceous, the basal 

 three-fourths of the stigma and two obscure spots beneath it on the 

 fore-wing reddish hyaline. Head smooth and shining, a semicircular 

 transverse depression in front of the ocelli. Thorax glabrous, shining ; 

 mesonotum gibbous, the parapsidal grooves indistinct ; the scutellum 

 triangular somewhat laterally compressed, the postscutellum trans- 

 verse ; the median segment elongate obliquely sloping to the apex 

 not areolated, the pear-shaped stigmata placed in a depression on 

 each side. Head, thorax and legs covered with a fine, short, erect, 

 brownish pubescence. Abdomen somewhat elliptical, as long as the 

 liead and thorax united ; basal segment with a raised longitudinal 

 rectangular centre portion smooth and shining, the lateral margins 

 foveate and bounded by a carina, the apex of the raised part depressed, 

 longitudinally striate and margined by a transverse broad carina ; 

 2nd segment with a medial subtriangular plate smooth and 

 shining from which coarse divergent striae radiate in the deeji 

 depressions on each side, these tlepressions bounded laterally and 

 posteriorly by raised carinse ; remaining segments coarsely punctured, 

 rugose, the sutures between the segments 2-5, and oblique lateral 

 grooves on segments 3-5 crenulate. 



Length 5 to apex of abdomen 20 ; of ovipositor 22 m.m. ; exp. 

 38 m.m. 



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