the genus Odynerus occurring in the Ethiopian Region. 511 



0. (Lionotus) deceptor, sp. n. 



$. Obscure ferrugineus, abdomine rubro; alis hyalinis. 

 Long. 9 mm. 



Clypeus longer than broad, pyriform, the apex subtruncate. 

 Thorax robust ; pronotum truncate anteriorly, only slightly widen- 

 ing towards tegulae; scutellum convex, slightly raised above disc 

 of mesonotum, postscutellum transverse, truncate ; surface of the 

 truncation of median segment slightly convex, the lateral angles 

 rounded. 



Basal segment of abdomen broad, cup-shaped, without any 

 constriction between it and segment 2. 



Head coarsely and evenly punctured ; clypeus and abdomen 

 (except segments 2-6 apically) impunctate. 



Length 9 mm. 12 $ ?. 



Portuguese East Africa: Kola Valley, 1700 ft.; 

 Nov. 1913 (type) ; Nyasaland : Chitala Stream, Oct. 1910 ; 

 Mlanje, 2300 ft., Oct. 1913 {S. A. Neave); Port Herald, 

 Jan. 1913 {Dr. J. E. S. Old) ; Transvaal : Pretoria {Miss 

 J. Brincker) ; N.E. Rhodesia {Silverlock Coll.) : Re- 

 sembles a small 0. carinatulus, Sauss., but differs in 

 structure of postscutellum. 



0. {Lionotus) hottentottus, Sauss. (Plate XCI, fig. 8.) 



0. hottentottus, Sauss. Et. fam. Vesp. SuppL, p. 244 (1854) 



nom. nov. 

 0. posticus, Sauss. {nee. H. S.). Ibidem i, p. 214 (1852) (^. 

 0. erythrospilus, Cam. Rec. Albany Mus., i, p. 205 (1905) $. 



Cameron's type is from Dunbrody. There is a good series 

 from Deelfontein {Col. Sloggett) and one specimen from 

 Salisbury, Mashonaland {G. A. K. Marshall). This 

 synonymy was noticed in a previous paper (Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. (8) vi, p. 101 (1910). 



0. {Lionotus) spoliatus, Cam. 



0. spoliatus. Cam. Annals Transvaal Museum, ii, p. 165 



(1910) S ?. . 

 0. longstaffi, Bingham, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1912, 



p. 378. (J. 



Bingham's species differs in certain points of coloration, 

 but is undoubtedly only a variety of 0. spoliatus, Cam., 

 the types of which are in the National collection. A South 



