TTt/menopterous Genera ^lyziiie ayid PIcisia. 501 



depression at the apex, sparsely punctured before tlie depres- 

 sion, tlie basal third of se^^ments 2-4 smooth and divided by 

 a transverse line from the apical portion of the sei^ment, the 

 petiole of the bisal segment a little Ioniser than broad, tho 

 auical sefTineiit elongate and pointed, smooth and shining. 

 Wings rather short, of about the same length as the abdoinen, 

 the stigma situated nearer to the base of the wing than to the 

 apex, the cubital nervure produced a little beyond the apex 

 of the cell and joined at its extremity by a strong scar ex- 

 tending to the margin of the wing. 



Black; the mandibles and pronotum bright ferruginous; 

 the apex of the fourth ablominal segment and th? wlnle of 

 the fifth and sixth testaceous red ; the tarsi, the anterior 

 tibia3, and the tegulae ferruginous; the spinas of the tdiisfi 

 whitish; the antennae fusoferruginous. Wings hyaline, 

 nervures pale ferruginous. 



Length 8 mm. 



JIah. Delagoa Bay. 



Type in B. M. 



This is a small and rather slender sp'icies, and the wings, 

 though rather short, are quite sufficient for flight. 



. Myzine rufifrons^ Fab. 



Mi/zme (Meira) violaceipennis, Cam. Rec. Alb.iny Mu33um, i. 5, p. 301, 

 is undoubtedly a synonvm. 



Myzine dimidiaticornis, Bingh. 



Mi/zinfi dimidiaticornis, Bingb. Jouro. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxv. p. 4123 

 ■(189G), 6. 



This is a Myzine, and not a Pfe.tia, l)ut is dislinguished 

 from other males of the genus by the very long pronotum. 



Myzine binghami, sp. n. 



? . Head rectangular, about half as broad again as long, 

 smooth and shining, with a few scattered jjuncturos on tlie 

 vertex and above tlie base of the antonna2 ; the clypcus trans- 

 verse and depressed ; the antcnnaj smootli and shining, the 

 scape beneath with long golden hairs ; a sulcus between the 

 antennie reaching more than halfway to the anterior ocellus. 

 Pronotum rather narrower than the head, slightly narroweil 

 anteri(nly and a little broader than long, nearly as long as 

 the scutellum and median segment coml»ined ; the whole 

 tliorax shining, with very large and sparse punctures, those 

 on the pronotum sctigorous ; the propleuri^ shining and very 

 Ann. cO Mu'j. X. IJisi. Scr. 8. Vol. i. X\ 



