780 MR. E. A, ELLIOTT ON THE 



notum apically panctato-rugose, clorsally alutaceous between deep 

 but diffuse punctures ; scutellum polished smooth, laterally 

 diffusely punctate, a row of about 10 subquadrate punctures on 

 each side between it and the dorsum. Mesopleurpe with small 

 and diffuse punctures and microscopic shagreening ; metapleura3 

 widely reticulate, smooth above, separated from median segment 

 by a carina, which passes into a row of punctures above in front. 

 Median segment with diffuse, sharply-defined punctures, anterior 

 lateral angles nearly smooth, apex rugose-punctate round the 

 insertion of petiole. Petiole slender, finely trans-aciculate, 

 extreme apex polished, longer than rest of abdomen in J , shorter 

 in 2 ; second segment basally rugose, remainder smooth. 

 Terebra in § twice as long as body, ferruginous brown, sheaths 

 brown, broadly white-banded before apex. Hind coxae rather 

 slender, finely reticulate outside, trans-aciculate inside ; femora 

 bidentate. Radius in fore wing sharply geniculate and extending 

 nearly to margin of wing. 



Black ; head — except mandibles apically, vertex, and space 

 between frontal tubercles, — five basal antennal joints, all 

 trochanters, tibiae and tarsi, apices of hind femora, petiole 

 laterally, apical segment dorsally only in $ , entirely in d , and 

 the male genitalia ferruginous ; anterior femora brown. Wings 

 hyaline, apically slightly inf uscate ; stigma a,nd nervures brown. 



Length, $ , 18| mm.; abdomen 13 mm.; petiole 5| mm. ; fore 

 wing 11 mm.; terebra 37 mm. c?, 13 mm.; abdomen 8 mm.; 

 petiole 5 mm. ; fore wing 11 mm. 



Habitat ; Barombi, Cameroons. 1 2^1 c? ; L. Oonradt. 



5. CRASSIPES Bischoff. 



I^eostephmius crassipes Bischoff, p. 329, $ . 



2 . Frons subarcuate rugose ; vertex transrugose ; occiput 

 punctate-rugose with central impression ; posterior margin of 

 head bordered. Antennae normal. Prothorax smooth, laterally 

 obliquely rugose ; mesonotum irregularly punctate rugose ; 

 scutellum smooth, laterally strongly punctate. Mesopleurae 

 diffusely punctate : metapleurae coriaceous in front, rather closely 

 punctate behind, separated by a row of strong punctures from 

 the median segment, which is coarsely, densely, and partly 

 confiuently punctate. (Details of petiole wanting.) Terebra 

 much longer than body, sheaths black, white-banded before 

 apex. 



Black to black-brown ; face below anteiior tubercles, temples, 

 cheeks, occiput laterally, four basal antennal joints, second segment 

 laterally, third basally and ventrally, last segment entirely, hind 

 trochanters, apices of hind femora, all tibiae and tarsi more or less 

 yellow-brown. 



Length 19 mm. ; terebra 27 mm. 



Habitat: Kasindi, north of Lake Albert Edward. Jan. 1908. 



Details as to the sculpture etc. of abdomen and as to hind legs 



