7C0 MR. R. E. TUUXER 0J7 



the thorax and median segment combined, not very slendei', of 

 about 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 

 postei'ior margin widely nnd 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 triangulaily 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 recvn-rent 

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

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

 I'eception of the recurrent nervure, the radial cell and all neura- 

 tion beyond the stigma obliterated. Median and submedian cells 

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

 median cell not extending veiy far beyond the submedian. 



Ilah. '^Yillowmore, Cape Colony (Z>?'. Brauns). 



This very distinct species will probably prove to be generically 

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

 Turn, and JL brcmnsi 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 JBraunsomeria, to which 

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

 distinguished by the much more robust build, the much shorter 

 and stouter antennre, and the deeper emargination of the apical 

 segment. 



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



fig. u.) 



S . Niger ; mcmdibulis basi, pronoto fascia angusta postice, 

 seqmentis dorsalihus 2-6 viacula transversa mediali apice, macu- 

 laque curvata laterali utrinque, tegulis, tarsis articulo apicali 

 excepto, tibiis anterioribus omnino, intermediis posterior ihvsqne 

 hasi pallid e fl avis ; alis hyalinis, vends perlucidis, stigmate 2^ullide 

 testaceo. 



Variai segmentis dorscdibus macula mediali obliterata. 



Long. 5-8 mm. 



S . Clypeus much broader than long, closely punctured and 

 shallowly emarginate at the apex. Antennte gradually thickened 



