208 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell—Descriptions and 
meeting outer t.-c, a little on the outer side; truncation of 
* marginal cell only moderately broad; spurs very pale 
reddish ; abdomen with very sparse weak punctures. 
Maboki, Lydenburgh, Transvaal (Ff. J. Kroegor). South 
African Museum. 
Remarkable for the large size and clear red abdomen with- 
out hair-bands. There is some resemblance to M. nigrives 
(Friese), but the wings are quite differently coloured. 
Sphecodes hemirhodurus, sp. n. 
? .—Length 5 mm. 
Head and thorax black; abdomen with the first two 
segments bright ferruginous, the others black, except a little 
red at sides of base of third ; mandibles bidentate, bright 
ferruginous in middle; face broad, covered with greyish- 
white hair, not hiding the clypeus, which has large 
punctures; flagellum clear ferrugimous beneath, except at 
base ; front and vertex well punctured ; mesothorax and 
‘scutellum polished, with large sparse punctures ; area of 
metathorax semilunar, with a few very strong irregular 
branching ridges, enclosing about eight areas ; tegulee- very 
small, basally brown, apically whitish. Wings hyaline, 
faintly dusky, nervures fuscous, stigma very dark. Knees, 
anterior tibiz in front, and small joints of tarsi ferruginous. 
Abdomen shining, sparsely and very finely punctured, 
depressed at base of second segment. 
Kimberley, March 1913 (Bro. Power). South African 
Museum. 
Known among the Ethiopian species by its small size, 
It closely resembles the European 8S. affinis, Hagens, but 
has the flagellum shorter and differently coloured, the sides 
of face much more hairy, the mesothorax with strong 
punctures, &e. 
Crocisaspidia maculata (Friese). 
Mfongosi, Zululand (W. H#. Jones). South African 
Museum. 
Dianthidium calescens, sp. n. 
9.—Length about 11°5 mm., anterior wing 9 mm.; 
breadth of abdomen 4°6 mm. 
Robust, entirely black, including legs, antenne, and the 
closely-punctured tegule ; clypeus very densely punctured, 
its lower edge crenulate, but not dentate ; face and front 
