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Engela minuta, sp. n. 



Body and legs ochraceous or virescent, caringe to pro- and 

 mesonota pale virescent ; abdomen with the base and the central 



lateral areas castaneous, 

 the latter intersected with 

 two longitudinal series of 

 pale spots ; femora with 

 castaneous longitudinal 

 lines ; posterior tibiae 

 with three spines tipped 

 with black ; cephalic 

 process long and very 

 robust, about as long as 

 abdomen, above, with two fine longitudinal carinations which are 

 ampliated at region of eyes, between these a short obscure basal 

 carination, apex a little globose and spotted with dark castaneous ; 

 face tricarinate, pro- and mesonota tricarinate, the carinations per- 

 current ; tegmina and wings subbyaline, talc-like, tegmina with the 

 radial vein and the apical area fuscous brown, the latter palely 

 broken between the veins ; stigma pale stramineous ; wings with 

 the venation fuscous brown, and the apex slightly shaded with the 

 same colour. 



Long. excl. tegm., 6 mm. ; exp. tegm., 12 mm. 

 Bab. S. Africa (Mansell Weale— Coll. Dist.). 



PUTALA TRANSVAALIENSIS, Sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, body beneath and legs dull ochraceous ; meso- 

 notum brownish ochraceous; abdomen above castaneous- brown, 

 with two central longitudinal series of ochraceous spots, and with 

 three longitudinal series of small greyish-white spots on each lateral 

 area ; legs linearly streaked with castaneous, posterior femora sub- 

 apically spotted with castaneous ; cephalic process about as long 

 as pronotum and mesonotum together, a little upwardly recurved ; 

 face long, narrowed anteriorly, gradually widened posteriorly from 

 eyes, tricarinate, the lateral carinations scarcely extending in front 

 of eyes ; clypeus globose, strongly centrally and marginally carinate, 

 its apex more or less castaneous ; posterior tibiae with five spines 

 of which the three basal spines are placed more closely together, 

 their apices black ; pronotum tricarinate with a small foveate spot 

 on each side of the central carination ; mesonotum tricarinate ; 

 tegmina hyaline, basal venation ochraceous, extreme margins fuscous, 



