7C0 MR. R. E. TUllNEU ON 



the thorax and median segment combined, not very slender, of 

 a,bont even thickness throughout, inserted a little nearer to the 

 eyes than to each other. Eyes not emarginate, their inner 

 margins parallel ; posterior ocelli a little nearer to each other 

 than to the eyes. Head convex, closely punctured, with a 

 frontal sulcus reaching to the ocellus ; antennal tubercles not 

 developed. Thorax rather sparsely punctured. Pronotum rather 

 short, as broad as the head, the anterior margin straight, the 

 posterior margin widely and feebly arched. Scutellum large, a 

 little shorter than the mesonotum. Median segment short, almost 

 smooth, with a median sulcus, truncate posteriorly. Abdomen 

 subsessile, the basal segment broad, not constricted at the apex 

 on the dorsal surface, deeply divided from the second on the 

 ventral surface, all the segments sparsely punctured and shining ; 

 the apical segment rather deeply triangularly incised for the 

 reception of the long aculeus of the hypopygium ; the whole 

 abdomen about equal in length to the head, thorax, and median 

 segment combined. Stigma very large, about twice as long as 

 the greatest breadth ; only one cubital cell and one recurrent 

 nervure, which is received on the cubitus just beyond the angle 

 of the cubital cell, the cubitus continued just beyond the point of 

 reception of the recurrent nervure, the radial cell and all nexira- 

 tion beyond the stigma obliterated. Median and submedian cells 

 of the hind wing present, but no neuration beyond them, the 

 median cell not extending very far beyond the submedian. 



Ilah. Willowmore, Cape Colony (Dr. Brauns). 



This very distinct species will probably prove to be generically 

 distinct from Myzine. It approaches most nearly to M. stoalei 

 Turn, and M. hrcmnsi Turn., but differs in the reduced neui-ation, 

 the entire eyes, the more robust and subsessile abdomen, and the 

 much broader stigma. But until the female is known I prefer to 

 leave it provisionally in Myzine. From Braimsomeria, to which 

 the neuration approaches more nearly than to Myzine, it may be 

 distinguished by the much more robust build, the much shorter 

 and stouter antennae, and the deeper emargination of the apical 

 segment. 



Myzine braunsi, sp. n. (PL LXXXI. fig. 14 ; PI. LXXXT.I. 



fig. 14.) 



(S . Niger ; m.andihtdis hasi, pronoto fascia angusta postice, 

 segmentis dorsalihus 2-6 macula transversa mediali apice, macu- 

 laque curvata laterali utrinque, tegtdis, tarsis articido apicali 

 fxcepto, tihiis anteriorihus omnino, intermediis j)Osteriorihusque 

 hasi jjallide Jlavis ; alis hyalinis, venis pei-lacidis, stigmafe ])aUide 

 testaceo. 



Variat segmentis dorsuliJms macula onediali ohliterata. 



Long. 5—8 7>^7>^. 



6 . Clypeus much broader than long, closely punctured and 

 shallowly emarginate at the apex. Antennse gradually thickened 



