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The eyes are greyish-green, with the lower end pale; in bevisi and 
variety a they are brown. The ocelli are pale greenish-yellow ; in 
bevist var. a they are pale reddish. : 
Umbilo, Durban, 8th Dec., 1914 (L. Bevis). 
Extremely close to H. bevisi var. a, but evidently a distinct species. 
Also very close to H. longicornis, Friese, from Kigonsera, but the 
hair is white, the thorax is shining between the punctures, and the 
femora are not red-brown. Also related to H. argentatus,*Gerst. 
On the same day, at Umbilo, Mr. L. Bevis took a female Heriades, 
7 mm. long, agreeing with H. chlorops in the dusky wings, and also 
in the possession of two pairs of spines on the posterior part of the - 
thorax, one axillary, the other at sides of base of metathorax. The 
ventral scopa is white. Superficially, this looks like H. chubbi, but 
the punctures of the mesothorax are very much finer. The mesothorax 
is shining, with the punctures as dense as possible, and much smaller 
in the middle than sub-laterally. In ch/orops (male) the punctures 
are larger, and not reduced in the middle. No such sexual difference 
appears in a number of Heriades examined. ‘This female is not H. 
albiscopanus, Strand, which is smaller (length 5°5 mm.) and has no 
axillary spines. It seems best to regard this Umbilo female as a 
distinct species, which may be named : 
HERIADES PUNCTULATUS, Sp. Nov. 
Other characters are: clypeus as densely punctured as possible, 
not at all carinate, with an even, slightly concave lower margin ; 
mandibles with two large teeth, occupying the outer half of the 
cutting edge; eyes greyish-brown; axillar and metathoracic spines 
stout and curved, thorn-like; second recurrent nervure joining second 
submarginal cell at apex; hair on inner side of hind tarsi white, 
faintly yellowish apically, but on inner side of anterior tarsi orange ; 
abdomen with very narrow thin hair-bands, broadened and dense at 
sides of first segment. . 
ALLODAPE VARIEGATA, Smith. 
Umbilo, 15th Oct., 6th Dec., 22nd Feb. (L. Bevis); Widenham, 
14th Dec., 1914 (L. Bevis; 1482). 
A small species, with broad yellow band on scutellum, and abdomen 
largely red. A specimen from F. Smith’s collection, from the Cape of 
Good Hope, differs by the red abdomen, only faintly dusky on apical 
