Families Bethylidee and Rhopalosomide. 105 
and very sparsely punctured, without a frontal sulcus. Eyes 
separated from the hind margin of the head by a distance 
slightly exceeding half of their own length ; the posterior 
ocelli situated on the hind margin of the head. First joint of 
the flagellum a little longer than the third, a little more than 
half as long again as the second. Thorax shining ; pronotum 
distinctly longer than the greatest breadth, broadly rounded 
anteriorly ; mesonotum with well-defined parapsidal furrows ; 
scutellum with a fovea on each side at the base. Median 
segment (fig. 2) as broad as long, the dorsal surface distinctly 
margined apically and laterally, smooth at the sides and 
apical angles, with a low median carina extending to the 
apex, an elongate triangular area bounded at the base by 
low convergent carinze which do not reach the apex finely 
and irregularly reticulate ; the sides of the segment and the 
surface of the apical truncation almost smooth. Abdomen 
smooth and shining. Submedian cell no longer than the 
median, nervulus nearly twice as long as the basal nervure ; 
radius about half as long again as the nervulus and basal 
nervure combined. ‘Tarsal ungues with a small tooth at 
right angles to the ungues just beyond the middle, the ungues 
(fig. 1, 6) behind the tooth slightly swollen. 
Hab. German Kast Africa, north of Handeni (Dr. W. A. 
Lamborn). 
On outskirts of Glossina pallidipes area. 
Rhabdepyris ethiops, sp. n. 
@. Nigra; mandibulis, scapo, flagello articulis duobus basalibus, 
tegulis pedibusque ferrugineis ; segmentis abdominalibus tribus 
apicalibus rufo-ferrugineis ; alis hyalinis, leviter infuscatis ; venis 
testaceis, costa, stigmate radioque nigris. 
Long. 6 mm. 
* 2. Clypeus subtriangular, blunt at the apex ; head longer 
than broad, opaque, very closely and rather finely punctured ; 
with a distinct longitudinal frontal suleus, which does not 
reach to the anterior ocellus. Eyes slightly hairy, separated 
from the hind margin of the head by a distance about equal 
to half of their own length ; posterior ocelli a little further 
from the hind margin of the head than from each other. 
Scape curved, as long as the three basal joints of the fla- 
gellum combined ; second joint of the flagellum a little longer 
than the third or fourth, the first and second joints subequal. 
Mandibles oblique at the apex, with five teeth, the outer one 
large and pointed, the second blunt and fairly large, the 
