Acideatc Hymcnoptcra in Oxford Museum. 559 



Rhodesia: Mashonaland, Salisbury 5000 ft. $ (G. 

 Marshall) ; East Loangwa, Petauke 2400 ft. {S. A. Neave). 



The males of two forms, probably new, are also con- 

 tained in the collection ; but as tliey are represented each 

 by only one specimen, and these not in the best condition, 

 I have failed to identify them and do not like to describe 

 them as new. 



26. Elis (Trielis) pardalina, Gerstaeker, 



Scotia pardalina, Gerst., Monats. Acad. Berlin, Nov. 1857 ; 



id. Mem. Acad. Berl., 1858, p. 495, pi. 31, fig. 11 $. 

 Elis {Trielis) 2^c(,>-dali7ia, Sauss. and Sich., Cat. Spec. Gen. 



ScoL, 1864, p. 148 $. 



Port Erel* $ {Coll. TV. W. Saunders). Zambezi ^ 

 {S. A. Neave). 



The ^, of which there is a single specimen only, very 

 closely resembles Elis {Dielis) clotho, Sauss., but the wings 

 are hyaline with a fuscous subapical cloud on the fore- 

 wing, and that wing has also three cubital cells and two 

 recurrent nervures. 



27. Myzine rufonigra, form n. 



Rhodesia : Bulawayo : Sept. 9, 1905 {E. A. Dixey). 



^ . Dull black, covered with long, soft, somewhat woolly, white 

 hairs which are most dense on the front of the head and on the 

 thorax posteriorly ; the mandibles, clypeus, a spot above the base 

 of the antennae, transverse medially interrupted narrow bands on 

 the anterior and posterior margins of the pronotuni, the tegulae, 

 the tibiae and tarsi above, tlie femora beneath, and transverse narrow 

 bands on the 3rd-6th abdominal segments above pale somewhat 

 greenish yellow ; the yellow on the tibiae and tarsi of the anterior 

 and intermediate legs is continvied on the underside and the trans- 

 verse yellow bands on the abdominal segments are each anteriorly 

 emarginate laterally; basal two abdominal segments blood red. 

 Wings hyaline. Head, thorax and abdomen minutely and some- 

 what sparsely punctured, the median segment posteriorly, and the 



* "Port Erel" was Col. Bingham's reading of W. W. Saunders' 

 handwriting on the label. It seems to me more like ''Port Wei," 

 a possible contraction of " Port Welcome " ; but my friend Prof. 

 A. J. Herbertson has not been able to find that either is known to 

 geographical science. — E. B. P. 



