NOTES ON AFRICAN CHALCIDOIDEA — IV. 419 



keel delicate, at first descending almost perpendicularly to below one-half, and then 

 curving forward to the corner of the mouth. Above the clypeus the surface is a 

 little shining, finely striate or reticulate ; impunctate near the mouth, but with many 

 shallow setigerous depressions towards the scrobes. At the sides of the frons and 

 on the vertex the puncturation is deeper and more even. 



Thorax : the entire thoracic notum, except the apex of the scutellum and 

 overlapping parts of the pronotum, show a thimble-like puncturation ; the punctures 

 generally equal and evenly disposed ; those on the axillae the smallest, while the 

 largest occur antero-medianly on the mid lobe ; between the punctures, the surface 

 is very finely striate, rugose, or reticulate. Scutellum with a fine median furrow 

 dying out at about one-half ; vertical aspect of apex smooth ; plate above metanotum 

 with three flatly rounded, shallowly separated lobes ; the median smallest. The 

 sides of the pronotum are finely raised striate; mesepisternum smooth, shining; 

 mesepimeron on the lower half, with one or two rows of large punctures with ridges 

 between, but smooth above. Metapleurae rounded, swollen, with large, regularly 

 disposed punctures. 



Wings : length, 5 mm. ; breadth over 1 '75 mm. Submarginal : marginal : radius : 

 post-marginal, in the ratio 16 : 5 : 3 : 6. 



Hind legs : the coxa seven-eighths of the femur, which is greatly swollen (16 : 11), 

 both shining, with minute, scattered punctures ; the femur with eleven teeth ; the 

 basal very small and the five succeeding increasing in size ; seven and eight larger, 

 equal, and three in a clump at the apex. 



Propodeon with a strong, median keel, bifurcating posteriorly at about one-half ; 

 within the forks are six cells (3, 3), round and above the petiole. The mid cell on 

 each side is largest, and receives the irregular notopleural edge, between which ard 

 the central keel are five large, and two or three (anterior) small cells, and there aie 

 about eight cells on the pleurae behind the metapleurae. The spiracle, lying 

 anteriorly behind the metapleurae, narrow, with straight inner, and broadly 

 emarginate outer edge, is placed vertically and faces posteriorly. 



Abdomen, including petiole (5 : 2), smooth, shining ; the tergites with simple 

 margins ; the first covering two-thirds of the disk. 



Length, 5.25 mm. ; alar expanse nearly 12 mm. 



Brit. East Africa : Masai Reserve, 21. iv. 1913 (T. J. Anderson). 



Type, a rj in the British Museum. 



Hockeria munda, sp. nov.'^' 



$. Head, thorax and abdomen shining black, the abdominal tergites on the lower 

 parts of their overlap, together with sternites iv. and v. and the junction of the sheath 

 of the ovipositor with tergite vii., brown or reddish brown. Antennae castaneous on 

 the scape and progressively darker towards the blackish club ; with the junctions of 

 the joints appearing as darker rings. Wings hyaline ; fore coxae black ; tegulae, 

 mid and hind coxae, and all the legs brown, the anterior pairs brighter and more 

 castaneous, the hind legs duller and with the tibiae somewhat infuscated. Pubescence 

 everywhere brilliant silvery white. 



* See figs. 1 and 2, pp. 382 and 383. 



