A'ppendix. 545 



Head and thorax coarsely closel}' punctured, cribrate, tlie wide deep 

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

 the scutelluin 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 fi'ont of the head, the cheeks and tlie metapleuraj 

 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. 



iTrf/^ Salisbury, 5000 feet, Mashonaland, South x4fr[ca. 



Bears a superficial resemblance to G. semiriifa, Walker, 

 from the Oriental Region, but in sculpture and in the 

 distribution of colour widely different. 



Type in the Hope Museuni, Oxford. 



LpMaulax ruher, sp. nov. (PL XXIII, f 31.) 



$ . Red, the front l)elo\v tlie antenna?, the head aliove, the cheeks, 

 except a narrow line behind the eyes, tha antenn;«, 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 anti 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 pos'scutellum 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 

 head and thorax united ; basal segment with a raised longitudinal 

 rectangidar 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 subtriaiigular plate smooth and 

 shining from which coar.-e divergent striae radiate in the deep 

 depressions on each side, these depressions bounded laterally and 

 posteriorly by rai.sed 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. 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1902, — PART III. (NOV.) o6 



