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(13) 14. Areola broaJ, not elongate ; lower basal nervure 



continuous. 

 (20) 15. Second abdominal segment neither striate nor 



black -banded. 



(17) 16. Scutellura convex and subcircular; areola glaljvous 8. globulifer Moy\. 

 (16) 17. Scutellum deplanatu and elongate ; areola dull and 



shagrecned. 

 (19) 18. Second segment transversely impressed ; gastro- 



cadi obsolete 9. sulcifer ^loi']. 



(18) 19. Second segment entire; gastrocoeli large and trian- 



gular ...; 10. till/ ridife)' Mor\. 



(15) 20. Secondsegniijut black-banded and strongly striate. 11. striatifer Mori. 



1. SCOPUUFER, sp. n. 



A claret-coloured and somewhat shining female, with the 

 occiput and freniun indefinitely hlack ; all the orbits but the 

 temporal, the mandibular base, sides of clypeus, ilagellar band, 

 prothoracic margin, lines before and beneath radix, a central 

 mesonotal mark, two more on mesopleurae, sides of petiolar area, 

 the scutellum and postscutellum, stramineoits-u^hite. Head pos- 

 teriorly short, but as broad as the eyes ; froiis distinctly and face 

 not closely piuictate, the latter transverse, centrally prominent 

 and not discreted from the apically ti'uncate clypeus, which is 

 centrally subdentate. Thorax shining, with distinct notauli ; 

 metathorax evenly punctate and not dull ; areola obviously 

 longer than broad, parallel -sided, glaljrous, apically incomplete 

 and emitting weak costulse from its centre. Scutellum deplanate, 

 subquadrate, glabrous with a very few fine and scattered punc- 

 tures, apically truncate and not at all laterally carinate. Abdomen 

 elongate fusiform with n,pices of segments a little prominent ; 

 three basal segments closely punctate and somewhat dull ; post- 

 petiole and base of second segment punctate-striate, the former 

 basally bicarinate ; gastrocoeli large and deeply impressed ; 

 terebra black and a little exserted. Legs indefinitely nigrescent- 

 red with apices of front coxse broadly, and of the intermediate 

 narrowl)^^ wdiite ; hind coxal scopufe lai'ge. Wings hj^aline, 

 stigma and tegular black, I'adix white; areolet pentagonal, broad 

 above ; nervelet wanting, second recurrent nervure externally 

 produced at its centre. Length, 12 mm. $ only. — Captured at 

 Mlanje on 15th August, 1913, in Nyasaland. 



2. CORNELLIFER, Sp. n. 



A hlack species with abdomen except petiole, metathorax 

 except petiolar area, mesopleurfe and most of the legs, red ; all 

 the orbits, cheeks, face except a central didymate mark, clypeus, 

 mandibles, the § flagellar band, prothoracic margin, lines before 

 and beneath anterior radix and behind the posterior, a central 

 mesonotal and two mesopleural marks, scutellum, postscutellum, 

 apical angles of the basal segment minutely, anterior cox?e and 

 trochanters entirely and the hind ones discally, stramineous ; 

 (S also has the basal segment except its angles black, and the 



