712 MR. K. E. TURX-EU ON 



is lai'i>'or, tlio chocks much broader, and the first abdominal 

 KCgniont a little shorter and nioi'o swollen towards the apex. 

 The apical ilorsal segment in capifaUt is Hat, not convex, and 

 has the sides distinctly raised into marginal ca.rinjB, 



Elis (Mesa) longiventris, sp. n. (Tl. LXXXI. lio-. 13 ; 



pi.Lxxxni.fig.il.) 



c? . JMger ; mandibidis, di/pco, liiiea ohliqna itfriiK^ite supra 

 aritonuh'?, pnmoto faticia ani/i(i>ia poslicc, seginexto dorsali primo 

 /((scia ampisfa apicali, ^('(/Dicntis ilorsalibus et roitntlihus '2-G fascia 

 angu^ta apicali bisiiutata, coxis si(hti(s, tibiis tarsisijae auicrioribas 

 supra, iiiierDHkUisqiie subfKS alhiJojlavis : alis /ii/alinis, renis 

 nigris. 



Long. 10-13 mm. 



c? . Yery slender. Head rugose; thorax strongly and closely 

 pnnctuvetl, median segment jnnictnred-rngose. Antemuv rather 

 slender, as long as the he:\d, thorax, and luedian segment com- 

 bined, of even tliicknoss throughout. Pronotum longer than the 

 scutellum, the sides almost parallel, the anterior margin straight, 

 with acute angles, the posterior margin widely arched, fc^ides of 

 the head and thorax rather thicky clothed with long white 

 pubescence. ^ledian segment longer than broad, rounded })os- 

 teriorly. Abdomen slender, shining, very finely punctured ; the 

 basal segment as long as the second and third combined, petiolate, 

 the narrow petiole nearly as long as the slightly swollen apical 

 portion ; second segment broadened fti'om the base, about equal 

 in length to the third, tlie segments scarcely constricted at the 

 base ; the apical doi'snl segment convex, subcarinate in the 

 middle, sparsely pnnetni'ed, the punctures lai-ge, the apical 

 incision shallow, not as deep as its breadth at the apex. "Wings 

 reaching to the apex of the fourth doi'sal segment ; second and 

 third abscissa^ of the I'adius usually about equal in length, the 

 fourth distinctly shorter; second recurrent nervure \-eceived just 

 before one-third from the base of the third cubital cell, curved 

 outwards in the middle. 



I fab. AVilhnvmore, Oape Ooloiiy (Dr. Jhriiois). 



This corresponds i-ather closely with the description of Plesia 

 ■incisa Cam., but in that description the incision of the apical 

 dorsal segment is s;\id to be twice longer than wide, and some of 

 the details of neuration are not quite the same. But the latter 

 character is of little impoi-tance in the genus, especially as to the 

 length of the second htuI third abscissae of the radius. Many 

 variations occur which are not of specific value. 



Elis (Mesa) asmaeensis Turn, 



ricsia asmareims Turn, Aim. vt Maa". Xat, Hist. (8) iii. p. 481 

 (1909), cT. 



J fab. Erythvea, 



