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fchan the other. The 3 r( l and following segments are covered 

 with silvery pubesceuce. Scutellar teeth longer than their 

 width at the base, narrowed gradually towards the apex. 

 The last ventral segment extends to the middle of the 

 ovipositor, to which it forms a sheath. Wiugs dark fuscous, 

 a broad white, oblique band extending from the apex of the 

 stigma to the middle ; the base and the apex, more narrowly, 

 are also hyaline. Legs covered with white pile ; the apices 

 of the 4 front tarsi dark rufous. — Length to end of 

 ovipositor fully 6 mm. 

 Transvaal. 



2. Chalcis spilopus sp. nov. Q. 



Black, the basal half of the antennal scape below, 

 tegulae, the apex of the fore femora broadly, of the middle 

 narrowly, of the apical more broadly above, the base and 

 apex of the 4 front tibiae ail round and of the hinder behind 

 broadly, ivory white. Wiugs clear hyaline, the nervures black. 

 — - Length 6 mm. 



Transvaal. 



Vertex rugosely punctured ; the upper lateral parts of 

 the front closely reticulated, below lougitudinally rugose. 

 Sides of face coarsely rugosely punctured, the centre more 

 widely punctured, with smooth, raised spaces above and below. 

 A curved keel runs into the malar space from the temples 

 shortly below the eyes. Pronotum strongly, closely punctured; 

 the centre of the basai slope reticulated. Mesonotum closely 

 punctured at the base, the rest more strongly and widely 

 punctured. Scutellum still more strongly punctured and with 

 a smooth longitudinal une in the centre of the basal half. 

 The projocting apex of the scutellum has an irregulär incision, 

 which divides it into two equal lobes. Metanotum widely, 

 irregularly reticulated. Base of propleurae irregularly, 

 somewhat obliqu^ly striated ; mesopleurae closely reticulated- 

 punctured ; the meta- with larye, deep reticulations. Hind 

 femora with 11 clearly separated, sharp teeth; the 9*h and 

 10th are shorter than the others. The base of the hind coxae 

 is black, the rest red ; the 4 front femora are blackish in the 

 middle behind. The tooth ou the upperside of the nieta- 

 pleurae is bluntly rouuded, indistinct. 



3. Chalcis rotundata sp. nov. Q. 



Black ; the 4 anterior tarsi, the fore tibiae and femora 

 in front and the middle knees rufo-testaceous ; the hind legs, 

 except the coxae, bright red. Wings hyaline, the nervures 

 and tegulae black. — Length 4 mm. 



South Africa. 



