200 Mr. T. D. A. Cockcrcll on neio 



Legs deep Llackissh brown ; tlic coxre pale oclireoiis. 



Wings with brown scales; fork-cells short, of nearly equal 

 length ; base of the first subniarginal cell nearer the apex of 

 the wing than that of the second posteiior, its stem about one 

 and a half times the length of the cell ; stem of the second 

 posterior not quite one and a half times the length of the 

 cell ; ))Osterior cross-vein sloping lackwards, not quite its 

 own length distant from the mid vein ; median vein-scales in 

 single line ; lateral vein-scales large and bluntly lanceolate, 

 existing on the second, third, and branches of the fourth veins 

 only, narrower ones on part of the first long vein, those on 

 the first and subcostal short and spatulate, like those forming 

 the median vein-scales, only in two rows ; costa with an inner 

 row of short spatulate scales, and the outer border with deep 

 brown spiny ones; the sixth vein is much curved apically. 



Length 2 8 mm. 



Time of ajyj^earance. December. 



Hah. Kortright, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1200 feet [Major 

 F. Snnfh, D.S. 0., R.A M. C.) . 



Ohs. Described from a perfect male. The specimen was 

 bred by ]\lajor Smitli from a larva taken in a hole in a brook. 



This is the first Ficalhia that has occurred in Africa. The 

 only other sjiecies with banded abdomen is F. vunimi, Theob., 

 from South India, but the Indian species has banded legs. 



XX IT. — American Hymenoptera : neio Sees and a new 

 rrociotryjrid. By T. D. A. COCKERELL, University of 



Colorado. 



Prosojiis crenulata, sp. n. 



(^ . — Length about 5 mm. 



Black ; head large, abdomen slender ; labrnm, greater part 

 of mandibles, scajie in front, and face below middle Icmon- 

 vellow ; supraclypeal mark quadrate, a little higher than 

 broad, slightly emarginate above; lateral face-marks filling 

 the space between the clypeus and supraclypeal mark and 

 the eye, truncate and minutely crenuh^te above ; the yellow 

 thus ends abruptly at about the same level right across the 

 face, though its n])per margin is not straight, but concave ; 

 flagelium brown beneath ; front and vertex strongly punc- 

 tured ; mesotliorax well i)unctured ; mctathorax polished and 

 shining, with a very narrow basal sculptured area; thorax 



