504 Ml-. R. E. Turner on the 



shining in the michlle, with a few minute punctures, opaque 

 at the sides. Propleurre sparsely punctured, obliquely 

 striated near the lower posterior anole ; niesopleuroe coarsely 

 ] unctured. Median segment finely and shallowly punctured, 

 rugulose, with a shining and shallow sulcus from the base 

 not reacliing the apex, rather abruptly truncate posteriorly, 

 the face of the truncation very finely rugose ; the sides of the 

 segment finely obliquely striated. Abdomen shining, finely 

 and ratlier closely punctured, most finely at tlie base of the 

 segments; the second and third segments marked with a 

 slightly raised transverse line at about one-third from the 

 base ; the epipygium finely longitudinally striated and 

 broadly rounded at the apex. Radial cell narrowly rounded 

 at the apex, the second cubital cell about two-thirds of the 

 length of the third on the radial nervure ; the first recurrent 

 nervure is received close to the middle of the second cubital 

 cell, the second just beyond the middle of the third cubital 

 cell. The third transverse cubital nervure is oblique and 

 broadly curved outwardly. 



Black ; the mandibles (except at the apex)^ the extreme 

 apex of the clypeus, the posterior margin of the head 

 broadly (reaching to the posterior ocelli), and the pronotum 

 ferruginous red ; the tegulae and the spines of the tarsi and 

 tibiai testaceous, the latter very pale; the extreme apex of 

 the pygidium fusco-ferruginous. Wings fuscous, the poste- 

 rior wings paler, the anterior slightly shot with purple ; 

 nervures black. Pubescence white, black on the head and 

 thorax above. 



Length 14, length of wing 9 mm. 



Hah. Maseru, Basutoland {R. Crawshaij). 



Type in B. M. 



Described from four specimens. 



Plesia {Mesa) hova, sp. n. 



$ . Mandibles acute at the apex, shining, and with a fringe 

 of long fulvous hairs on the lower margin. Clypeus broadly 

 rounded at the apex, closely punctured, the apical margin 

 shining and smooth. Front closely and coarsely, vertex 

 sparsely and shallowly punctured, the space round the ocelli 

 smooth and shining; the sca[)e of the antennre is smooth and 

 shining above, finely punctured beneath, with a few dark 

 fulvous hairs ; the flagellum is opaque, with the first joint 

 shining. Pronotum coarsely and closely punctured, the 

 anterior truncation smooth and shining, the propleura? sparsely, 

 the mesopleurge very coarsely and closely punctured. Meso- 



