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Face obscurely puuctured, thickly covered with white 

 pubesceuce. Front and vertex closely, fiDely, uniformly 

 pUDCtnrt'd; tlicre is a smooth liue in the centre of the former. 

 Parapsidfil i'urrows closely creuulated, especiallv towards the 

 apex ; the scutellar dépression large, creuulated at the apex. 

 Metanotum behiud the keel smooth aud shiuinor ; the rest 

 finely, closely rugose. Pro- aud mesopleurae almost entirely 

 smooth and shilling. 



Pimplinae. 



6. Pimpla heliophila sp. nov. cf. 



Dark rufous, the anteunae, head, apical two segments 

 of the abdomen, the breasts and the greater part of the legs, 

 black ; the greater part of the anterior troehanters, femora, 

 tibiae aud tarsi iu front, the apex of the middle femora, 

 a broad band near the base of the middle tibiae, a 

 broader one near the base of the hiuder, the greater part 

 of the calcaria aud the palpi, white. Wings clear hyaline, 

 the nervures and stigma black, tegulae white. — Length 9 mm. 



Transvaal. 



Front aud vertex puuctured; the lower part of the front 

 transversely, closely striated in the middle, the sides longi- 

 tudiually striated; the face more strongly and closely puuctured 

 and thickly covered with white pubesceuce ; the clypeus 

 smooth and shiuiug. Mesothorax closely, distmctly puuctured 

 and covered with white pubesceuce. Prothorax smooth, the 

 upper, apical edge of the propleurae puuctured and striated; 

 the central furrow strongly, but not closely puuctured. Scu- 

 tellum rouudly couvex, shiuiug, sparsely, weakly puuctured. 

 Sides of metauotum closely punctured, the base to the top 

 of the apical slope (which is smooth and shining) closely, 

 transversely striated. Abdomen closely, somewhat strougly 

 puuctured ; the apices of the middle segmeuts are narrowly, 

 obscurely yellow. Areolet triaugalar, the nervures meeting 

 iu front, the récurrent nervure is received shortly beyoud the 

 middle ; disco-cubital nervure broken. 



Cornes near to P. melanospila Cam. 



Braconidae. 



7. Phaenocarpa ? testaceipes sp. nov. Q. 



Black, the mandibles, palpi, au terni al scape aud legs yellowish 

 testaceous, wings hyaline, the stigma aud nervures testaceous, 

 the tegulae of a darker testaceous colour. — Length 4 mm, 

 ovipositor 1 mm. 



Cape. 



