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of the segment by a number of very fine and close oblique 
strie. Abdomen witha short petiole, which is about twice as 
long as the hind trochanter ; smooth and shining, with a few 
punctures on the apical segments. Hind tarsal ungues 
(fig. 1, e) very similar to P. subrufescens, but with the 
‘median tooth longer and stouter and the basal bristle deve- 
loped into a strong spine. Submedian cell scarcely longer 
than the median, brachial cell absent, radius about twice as 
long as the basal nervure. 
Hab. Portuguese East Africa, Kola Valley, east of Mount 
Chiperone, 1700 ft. (S. A. Veave), November 1913. 
Epyris muirt, sp. n. 
$. Niger; mandibulis, tegulis, tibiis anticis, tarsisque brunneo- 
testaceis; alis subhyalinis, venis testaceis, stigmate radioque 
fuscis. 
Long. 5°5 mm. 
3. Head distinctly broader than long; finely and rather 
sparsely punctured, shining, without a frontal sulcus, Eyes 
separated from the hind margin of the head by a distance 
scarcely equal to half of their own length; posterior ocelli 
about twice as far from each other as from the hind margin 
of the head. First joint of the flagellum extremely short, 
second a little shorter than the third, second and scape sub- 
equal. Mandibles oblique at the apex, with five blunt teeth, 
the inferior one much the largest ; elongate, subconcave on the 
upper and lower edges ; behind each of the four smaller teeth 
are one or two stout bristles. Pronotum as long as the meso- 
notum and scutellum combined, rounded anteriorly, shining, 
with sparse piliferous punctures; mesonotum with very 
distinct parapsidal furrows; scutellum smooth and shining, 
with a fovea on each side at the base. Median segment 
margined laterally and at the apex, nearly twice as broad as 
long, opaque, very minutely and closely transversely strio- 
late; with an enclosed median space bounded by two con- 
verging caring which are twice as far apart at the base as 
at the apex, a strong median carina from base to apex, the 
space between the carine longitudinally rugulose ; surface 
of the apical truncation very finely and closely transversely 
striolate, with a low longitudinal carina ; sides of the segment 
smooth and shining at the base, finely aciculate at the apex. 
Two basal dorsal segments smooth and shining, the remainder 
with sparse piliferous punctures. Hind tarsal ungues 
