220 Licut.-Coloncl C. T. BIngliam on 



Seven females, one male, Pretoria {Distant) ; Johannes- 

 hnv^ {A. Ross) ; Middleburg [Distant)) Durban [A. Boss). 



This species is veiy distinct, but at first sight is apt to be 

 mistaken for E. caffra ; the base of the abdomen (excluding 

 the pedicel) is in this species always red, in E. caffra always 

 black. 



Eumenes RendalU, sp. n. 



? . Allied to and resembling E. Edwardsi, Sauss., in 

 shape and E. fenestralis, Sauss., a little in colour. Dull 

 brick-red ; the clypeus, a triangular mark on the front, and 

 the antennaj orange-red, the flagellum shaded above towards 

 tiie apex with black ; vertex black ; the mesonotuin, a broad 

 vertical line on the median segment, and the sutures on the 

 flanks and above on the thorax black ; legs pale red. Wings 

 hyaline, shaded with fulvous along the costal margin and with 

 the apical two thirds of the marginal cell in the fore wing 

 dark fuscous. Pedicel and abdomen red, the former with a 

 black mark above towards the apex, the latter with the basal 

 half of the first segment red, the apical half black, the second 

 and following segments black above, red below, with their 

 posterior margins broadly yellow. The head above the base 

 of the antenna3, the thorax, and the median segmejit very 

 finely and closely punctured ; the clypeus, pedicel, and abdo- 

 men smooth, but not polished or shining. 



(J. Similar; the clypeus, a narrow line behind the eyes, 

 and a broader streak along the lower portion of the emar- 

 gination of the eyes bright yellow. The yellow on the apical 

 abdominal segments replaced with red. 



Length*, ? , 17 ; exp. 32 millim. c?jl3; exp. 26 millim. 



Ilah. Described from five females and one male from Fort 

 Johnston, Nyasaland (collected by Dr. Kendall), and one 

 female from Barberton, Transvaal. 



Eumenes Lncasia, Sauss. 



Eumenes Lucasia, Sauss. Etiid. Farn. Vesp., i. Eumen. (1852) p. 68. 

 Zethiisfavillaceus, Walli. List Hyui. Egypt, 1871, p. 28. 



A solitary specimen of this apparently widespread species 

 from Pretoria {Distant). 



* In the Diploptera tlie measurement of the lenj^th is taken only to 

 the apex of the second abdominal segment. 



