Families Betliyliclse and Rliopalosomidse. 103 



of the segment by a number of very fine and close oblique 

 strife. Abdomen with a short petiole^ which is about twice as 

 long as the hind trochanter ; smooth and shining, witii a few 

 punctures on the apical segments. Hind tarsal ungues 

 (fig. 1^ e) very similar to P. suhrufescens, 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 nervnre. 



Hah. Portuguese Bast Africa, Kola Valley, east of Mount 

 Chiperone, 1700 ft. {S. A. Neave), November 1913. 



Epyris muiri, sp. n. 



c? . Niger; mandibulis, tegulis, tibiis anticis, tarsisque brunneo- 

 testaceis ; alls subhyalinis, venis testaceis, stigmato radioque 

 fuscis. 



Long. 5*5 mm. 



^ . 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 cariuEe 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 carinse 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, iinely aciculate at the apex. 

 Two basal dorsal segments smooth and shining, the remainder 

 with sparse piliferous punctures. Hind tarsal ungues 



