246 On the Braconiclje in the British Museum. 



of tlie aiiteniife 8 mm. Thorax smootli anrl shining, the 

 scutelluni finely punctured, tlie basal half of the scutellum 

 occupied by a deep depression in which are three longitudinal 

 carinfe, the apex and sides of the scutellum strongly longi- 

 tudinally striated. Median segment smooth at the base, 

 coarsely rugose-striate at the apex. Abdomen longitudinally 

 rngose-striate, with only three visible tergites ; second tergite 

 with a distinct longitudinal carina ; the first broader at tlie 

 apex than long, not much narrowed to the base ; the second 

 a little shorter than the first, twice as broad at the apex as 

 long ; the third very little longer than the second, without 

 teeth at the apex beneath. Kecurrent nervure received 

 before the first transverse cubital nervure. 



Hah. S.W. Australin, Yallingup (Turner), November and 

 December ; three specimens. 



The tergites are less strongly curved downwards both late- 

 rally and apically than in the European S. irrorator^ from 

 which it also differs in the absence of apical spines and in the 

 broader and less elongate abdomen. It approaches the 

 North-American S. bicolor much more closely in these points, 

 but is a larger and more robust species. The colour of the 

 fore femora and tarsi seems to vary, one specimen having the 

 femora black and two having the tarsi except the apical joint 

 testaceous red. 



Sphceropyx neavei, sp. n. 



2 . Nigra ; palpis, mandibulis ai^ice, abdoraiue, pedibus tegulisqne 

 rufo-testaceis : femoribus posticis apice, tibiis posticis apice, 

 tarsisque posticis, basi extremo excepto, uigris ; alis venisque 

 fuscis. 



Long. 7 mm. 



? . Front and clypeus closely punctured and sparsely 

 clothed with fuscous pubescence ; vertex and thorax shining, 

 finely punctured ; a broad transverse groove at the base of 

 the scutellum divided by a longitudinal carina; median 

 segment punctured-rugose, the sides rugose-striate. Abdomen 

 rugose ; the first segment with two longitudinal carinse con- 

 verging at the apex, a little longer than the apical breadth, 

 half as broad again at the apex as at the base ; second tergite 

 a little longer than the first, not as long as the aj.ical breadth ; 

 third tergite no longer than the second, without apical teeth. 

 Recurrent nervure received before the first transverse cubital 

 nervure. 



Hub. N.E. Rhodesia, Serenje District, 4500 feet {S. A. 

 Neave)y December. 



