94 Miss G. Ricardo on 
Exoprosopa parva, sp. 0 
Two males and two females from Pretoria and Pienaars 
River (W. L. D.). 
Black, with red face, scutellum, and sides of abdomen. 
Face black in the centre, with long white hairs and 
yellowish scaly hairs ; forehead black, with black pubescence 
and yellowish scaly hairs. Antenne black, the first two 
joints with black hairs, thickest on the lower side. Proboscis 
not extending beyond the oral opening. Hind part of head 
with silvery-white scaly hairs, the collar composed of 
brownish-yellow hairs, becoming white below. The thorax 
has some yellow-brown scaly hairs, with long yellowish 
hairs on the shoulders and at the sides, and white ones at 
the base of wing and on the posterior half; the pubescence 
on the breast-sides consists of white hairs, with some yellow 
ones intermixed. Scutellum red, black at the base, with 
yellowish scaly hairs and white pubescence, bordered with 
black bristles. Abdomen blue-black, from the second seg- 
ment onwards bordered laterally with red, with black pubes- 
cence and yellowish scaly hairs, the latter being thickest on 
the sides ; on the anterior border of the second segment is 
a narrow band of white hairs and on the posterior margin of 
the last segment a yellowish white fringe of hairs: the hairs 
at the sides of the abdomen are whitish, thickest on the first 
two segments ; some black hairs are intermixed on the last 
segments. Underside of abdomen red, with whitish pubes- 
cence. Legs red, all the cox, the anterior femora, the apex 
of the anterior tibiz, and all the tarsi black ; the pile on the 
legs is whitish. 
Wings grey, with faint brown shading on the fore border, 
much fainter than that of e/uta, Loew, not reaching beyond 
the second basal cell, from the apex of which it extends in a 
sloping line to the fore border where the auxiliary vein ends ; 
veins brown, the base of the second longitudinal vein is just 
below the small cross-vein, the first posterior cell is somewhat 
narrowed at its opening, the second and third about equal in 
width. In the second male specimen the shading of the wing 
is fainter than in the type. 
Length 9 millim. 
Type (male), Pretoria (W. L. D.); type (female), Pre- 
toria (W. L. D.). 
The two females I believe to be the female of this species 
vary thus from the males :—The first two joints of the an- 
tenne are reddish; the abdomen wholly black, with the 
exception of a square red mark on each side of the second 
