448 . Mr. G. Meade-Waklo on 



Subfamily Nitelinje. 



JVitela rujiventris, sp. n. 



5 . Nigra ; mandibulis, scapo, flagello articulis duobus basalibns, 

 tegulis, abdomine pedibusque rufo-ferrugineis ; alia byalinis, 

 iridescentibus, venis testaceis, stigmate radioque nigris. 

 Long. 3*5 mm. 



? . Clypeus not strongly convex, without a distinct carina. 

 Eyes strongly divergent towards the clypeus, separated on 

 the vertex by a distance equal to the length of the two basal 

 joints of the flagellum. Head finely and closely punctured, 

 the front thinly clothed with short pale golden pubescence; 

 posterior ocelli almost touching the eyes. Pronotum nearly 

 as long as the scutellum, not sunk below the mesonotum, 

 the margins only very slightly raised, so that the usual 

 transverse sulcus is not well defined. Mesonotum closely 

 and finely punctured, with a row of larger punctures before 

 the scutellum, which is almost smooth. Median segment 

 coarsely longitudinally striated, rounded at the apical angles, 

 the posterior slope more finely transversely striated. Abdo- 

 men smooth and shining. Legs unarmed. 



Hah. Monkey Bay, Lake Nyasa, June (IF. A. Lamlorn). 



The neuration is as in typical JVitela, but the species is 

 easily recognized by the colour. 



Lin. — J^otes on the Apidge {Hymenoptern) in the CoUection 

 of the British Museuin, ivith Descriptions of new Species. 

 By Geoffrey Meade- Waldo, M.A.* 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



VII. 



1'he following notes and descriptions were prepared during 

 the recent rearrangement of the collection of Apidge in the 

 iluseum. 



Much valuable information on the type-specimens &c. 

 contained in the British Museum has already been published 

 by Professor Cockerell, who had studied tiiem during a 



* [We deeply regret the death of our valued contributor Mr. G. Meade- 

 Waldo, who passed away on the 11th of March at the early age of 32. 

 Tlie proof of this paper, which he sent to the ' Annals ' shortly before his 

 death, has been kindly corrected by Mr. R, E. Turner. — Eds. ' Annals.'] 



