232 £• Caméron. 



Vertex and sides of front rugosely pnnctured ; the sides 

 of face obliquely striated ; the centre diiated above, sbining, 

 and with a few Striae. Pro- and mesothorax rugosely punc- 

 tured ; the scutellum more strongly puuctured ; its apex in 

 the middle broadly rounded. Metanoturn obscurely reticulated, 

 the sides not toothed. Pro- and mesopleurae sraooth and 

 shining above ; the base of the latter striated, • the meta- 

 coarsely, closely rugosely reticulated. Hind coxae closely 

 and strongly punctnred ; the 4 basai teeth of the femora are 

 closely together, short and thick ; the others are more irre- 

 gulär and widely separated. The fémoral teeth are less 

 distinct than usual. The antenuae short and thick ; the 

 flagellum thickly covered with white pubescence. Sheaths of 

 the ovipositor broad, projecting, but not as in Phasgonopliora, 

 to which it forms, with the entire, non toothed scutellum, 

 a transition. 



A New Species ol Ohirotica (Iehnenmonldae, 

 Hemitelini) Irom Uape Colony. (H 7 m.) 



By P. C a m e r o n. 



Chirotica balteata sp. nov. cf. 



Black, the legs (except the coxae) and the 2 Û <1 and 3 1( i 

 segments of the abdomen, rufo-testaceous ; the mandibles 

 dark rufous, the palpi testaceous ; wings hyaline; the stigma 

 and nervures dark fuscous, the base of the stigma white. — 

 Length 2,5 mm. 



Autennae longer than the body, about 40-jointed, the 

 scape dark rufo-testaceous. Face shagreened, with a shining 

 line down the centre ; the vertex more shining, closely, minu- 

 tely punctnred. Hind ocelli separated Irom each other by a 

 distinctly greater distance than they are from the eyes. 

 Thorax above closely, minutely puuctured, the pleurae more 

 shining, smoother. First abdominal segment aciculated, the 

 others smooth, more shining. Pterostigma large, wide ; the 

 radius issues from its middle; radins louger than in Hemiteles; 

 the disco-cubital nervure with a distinct stmnp of a nervure. 

 There is a curved nervure below the metathoracic spiracles, 

 this being the only keel on the median segment ; on whicb, 

 at the base above, is au elongated fovea. 



The distinction which separates Chirotica from the other 

 Hemitelini, lies in the absence of areae ou the median segment. 



