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1. CARINIFER, Sp. 11. 



A stout and closely punctate but not very dull, black female 

 with no pale antennal band ; frontal and centre of external orbits, 

 labruni, mandibles and cheeks, basal half of flsigellum indefinitely, 

 and the anterior legs except basally, fulvidous ; elongate callosities 

 before and beneath radix, a circular central mesonotal mark, whole 

 scutellum and postscutellum, alone stramineous. Head trans- 

 verse ; face and clypeus strongly and evenly punctate, not 

 discreted, the latter slightly produced centrally. Flagellum 

 filiform, neither explanate nor apically attenuate. Notauli short 

 and deep ; metathoracic carinse very strong, with the external 

 dentipai-al outwardly curved at its base ; areola subaciculate, 

 basally glabrous, rounded and there touching postscutellum, 

 apically subtruncate ; spiracles large, apophyses wanting. Scu- 

 tellum deplanate, glabrous with a few tine scattered punctures, 

 not laterally margined. Abdomen stout and fusiform, immaculate 

 black ; basal segment stoutly bicarinate to the closely and evenly 

 punctate postpetiole ; gastrocoeli large and broader than the shortly 

 striate intervening space; anus nitidulous and obsoletely punctate; 

 the third and obscurely ochraceous second ventral segments 

 plicate, hypopyglum remote from terebral base. Legs stout and 

 not short, black with anteiior femora, tibite and the front tai'si 

 clear red ; coxse not scopulate. Wings hyaline ; areolet pen- 

 tagonal, broad above ; internal cubitus stiaight, with no nervelet ; 

 stigma castaneous-black ; lower basal nervui'e distinctly post- 

 f ureal. Length, 17 mm. 5 o"b^- — This species has much the 

 facies of Hejnopehmis leucostigmics, Grav,, with the anus more 

 acute and hypopygium remote. — Harrar in Abyssinia during 

 May 1911 (Collector ignot.). 



2. MELANOPTERUS, Sp. n. 



An extremely dull and closely shagreened, black species with 

 only the laterally carinate scutellum nitidulous ; flagellar hand 

 alone white ; wings strongly infumate. Head transverse, con- 

 stricted behind the eyes ; frons evenly, face and the undiscreted 

 clypeus closely punctate, with apex of the latter a little rounded ; 

 labrum and palpi obscurely rufescent. Flagellum centrally sub- 

 explanate and apically attenuate. Notauli short and deeply 

 impressed ; metanotum with only the petiolar carinse strong ; 

 areola and costulee obsolete, the former shaped as in the last 

 species, though sculptured as remainder of metanotum ; spiracles 

 large, apophyses short and acute. Abdomen fusiform and im- 

 maculate ; postpetiole punctate-shagreened ; gastrocoeli wanting, 

 thyridii shining, intervening space not striate ; venter plicate 

 througliout. Legs normal ; coxse not scopulate ; front tibite and 

 tarsi obscurely rufescent. Wings nigrescent throughout ; areolet 

 coalescent above ; cubital nervure curved, with no nervelet ; basal 

 nervure continuous through the median. Length, 14 mm. 

 2 only. — The outline is similar to that of M. leucovielns Gmel., 



