512 Mr. G. Meade-Waldo's revision of the species of 



African species : Johannesberg, xii, 1905 {G. Kobrow) 

 ex. coll. Brauns cJ $ and {A. J. Cholmley) $; Salisbury, 

 Mashonaland {G. A. K. Marshall) 2 $ $, 1 (^; Kranspoort, 

 xii. 1900 (type ? (^) ; Natal (type of 0. Longstaffi). 



0. (Lionotus) capicola, sp. n. 



$. Niger, luteo variegatus, pedibus rufis ; clypeo basi, oculorum 

 sinii, maculis post oculos, pronoti margine antico, tegulis plerumque, 

 scutelli postscutellique maculis lateribus, abdominis segmentis 

 1-3 fasciis apicalibus, luteis; scapo infra, mandibulis, pedibusque, 

 rufis; tergite 2 carina longitudinali inconspicua ; alis infuscatis. 

 Long. 7 mm. 



General appearance black, segments 1-3 with yellow apical 

 fasciae, legs ferruginous red. Wliole insect clothed with short fine 

 pubescence, that on face and pleura silvery-pruinose. Clypeus as 

 broad as long, flat, truncate at apex, longitudinally striate ; man- 

 dibles long, with a row of distinct teeth. Head broader than thorax, 

 anterior margin of prothorax truncate, very narrow, but abruptly 

 widening towards tegulae; scutellum raised; median segment 

 concave, the lateral angles rounded. Head and thorax coarsely, 

 abdomen more finely punctured ; tergite 2 with an inconspicuous 

 longitudinal carina. First segment of abdomen short. Wings 

 smoky. 



(J similar to $, but with mandibles, clypeus and scape beneath 

 yellow. 



Length 7 mm. 3 ? ?, 5 c? <?. 



Cape Colony : Willowmore {Dr. H. Brauns). 



Odynerus lateralis, F. 



Vespa lateralis, F. Spec. Insect, i, p. 466, no. 49 (1781). $. 

 Odynerus truncatus, Sauss. Et. fam. Vesp. i, p. 175 (1852). 



Saussure (Et. fam. Vesp. iii, p. 171) quite excusably 

 misidentified the Fabrician species. Two entirely distinct 

 insects stand as V. lateralis in the Banks collection ; the first 

 in arrangement is the large (over 15 mm.) robust form with 

 shining mesonotum, doubtless the Rhynchium africanum, 

 Sauss. ; the second, a smaller (11 mm.) insect with punctured 

 mesonotum, compared by Fabricius as equal in size to his 

 V. tecta (type in B.M.), is the genuine Odynerus lateralis, F. 

 This species is identical with Saussure's D. truncatus 

 (a cotype from the Paris Museum compared). It is evident 



