and Characters of undeseribed Species. 389 



the head ; scape tawny ; club conical. Thorax of the usual 

 structure. Abdomen oval, flat above, hardly convex beneath, a 

 little shorter and broader than the thorax. Legs reddish, short, 

 stout. Wings broad, hyaline; veins brown; ulna descending 

 obliquely to the disk after its junction with the humerus ; its 

 costal part shorter than the radius, and less than half the length 

 of the humerus ; stigma rather large. 



Length of the body 1| line; of the wings 2| lines. 



Port Natal. Discovered by Mr. Plant. In the P)ritish 

 Museum. 



Genus Cheiropachys. 

 Cheiropachys genualis. 

 Fcem. — Nigricante aenea, robusta ; antennae rufae, nigro 

 bifasciatae ; pedes rufi, genubus- albis ; alee vitta discali 

 arcuata fusca. 



Female. — Blackish seneous, stout. Head and thorax minutely 

 punctured. Head short, not broader than the thorax ; face 

 slightly retracted. Antennae red, slender, filiform, inserted in the 

 middle of the front, fully as long as the thorax ; scape slender ; 

 2nd joint elongate-cyathiform, black at the tip; 3rd and 4th black, 

 distinct; 10th, 11th and 12th black; 13th red. Abdomen 

 lanceolate, flat above, keeled beneath, narrower and much longer 

 than the thorax. Legs red, stout, knees white, the white hue 

 extending over the basal part of the hind-tibiae. Wings cinereous. 

 Fore-wings with a curved, brown, discal stripe ; veins black ; ulna 

 full half the length of the humerus, as long as the radius ; cubitus 

 rather long, slightly curved. 



Length of the body 4| lines; of the wings 6 lines. 



Port Natal. Discovered by Mr. Plant. In the British 

 Museum. 



Genus L;elaps, Haliday. 



Fcem. — Corpus convexum, elongatum, non latum; caput et 

 thorax sub-punctata. Caput thorace latius ; frons brevis- 

 sima ; facies excavata. Antennae 14-articulataB, graciles, sub- 

 clavatae, prope os insertae ; articulus 1"* longus, linearis ; 3'" 

 brevis ; 4"* et sequentes brevissimi ; clava longi-conica. Pro- 

 thorax antice paullo angustior, non angulatus. Parapsidum 

 sutuiae bene determinatae ; paraptera et epimera magna ; 

 scutellum scitissime striatum, sutura transversa. Metathorax 

 bene determinatus, rude punctatus. Petiolus brevissimus. 

 Abdomen glabrum, plus minusve lanceolatum ; segmentum 

 ]""» longissimum. Pedes graciles, inermes, longiusculi ; 



