338 F. Cameron. 



gelb, die Hinterbeine manchmal rostrot, Hinterhüften aussen 

 mit einem braunen Längsstreifen, Schenkel und Schienen 

 aller Beine rostrot bis schwarzbraun gestreift. Flügel 

 schwach gelblich getrübt, am Rande kaum dunkler, Adern 

 dunkelbrauu, Kosta, Postkosta und Mal rostrot. 8,5 — 11 

 mm. Q cf. Peru, Panama, Honduras. 



49. N. transversaria n. sp. 



On some nndeseribed Genera and Species of 

 Parasitie Hymenoptera from Cape Colony and 

 Transvaal South Africa. (Hym.) 



By P. Cameron. 



Cryptinae. 



Cryptini. 



Rhynchocryptus gen. nov. 



Median segment with 2 transverse keels, the 2 11( 1 without 

 lateral teeth, the spiracles 3 times longer than wide. Head 

 rostriform, the malar Space long. Clypeus long, its apex 

 transverse, the sides straight, clearly separated. Labrum 

 hidden. Wings uniformly fuscous violaceous ; the areolet 

 large, 5-augled, the récurrent nervure received beyond the 

 middle ; disco-cubital nervure brokeu by a stump of a nervure; 

 the transverse median nervure received shortly beyond the 

 middle, almost interstitial. Transverse median nervure in hind 

 wings broken distinctly beyond the middle. Abdominal pétiole 

 long, dilated, but not abruptly, at the apex, which is more 

 than twice the width of the base. Ànteunae short, stout ; 

 not tapering much towards the apex ; the 3 r( l joiut is not 

 much longer than the 4th. Clypeus not separated from 

 the face. 



The scutellum is not much raised ; its sides not margiued. 

 Pleurae closely punctured; the metäuoturn closely reticulated, 

 without a distinct basal area. 



The rostriform head and the black wings are as in 

 Osprync/iotns *), but that genns has the abdominal pétiole 



*) Both Ashmead (Bull U. S. Nat. Mus. XXIIL 40) and Schmiede- 

 knecht, (Opusc. lehn., 415) erroneously State that the transverse median 

 nervure in hind wings is broken below the middle ; it is broken clearly 

 above the middle in Osprynchotus. 



