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shortly behind the middle of the first and second and in the middle 

 of the third is a wide deep transverse furrow ; the third and fourth 

 segments laterally have the apical half roundly curved in the centre, 

 the apex distinctly projecting ; there are seven segments. 



Antennae 25- jointed ; the first joint of flagellum not quite so long 

 as the second. Eyes large ; the ocelli widely separated from them — 

 by the same distance they are from each other ; they reach to the 

 top of the vertex. Face and clypeus densely clothed with longish 

 white pubescence. 



In Ashmead's system this genus would come in near Allocota, 

 Foer. The deep transverse furrows on the abdomen remind one of 

 the Braconid genus, Iphiaulax. 



CiENOAULAX STRIATUS, Sp. nOV. 



Dark rufous, the head, breast, and legs black ; antennae black, 

 dark rufous at the base ; front legs dark testaceous, the hind tibiae 

 with a clear white band on the base ; the calcaria pale ; wings clear 

 hyaline, the nervures and stigma black ; the apical abdominal seg- 

 ments white. 2 • 



Length 6 mm. ; terebra 1 mm. 



Cape Colony. Grahamstown, April. 



Head rugosely punctured ; sparsely haired on the front and vertex, 

 the rest thickly covered with long clear white pubescence ; from the 

 ocelli stout striae run obliquely backwards to the eyes. Hind ocelli 

 separated from each other by about the same distance they are from 

 the eyes. Thorax covered with white pubescence ; the mesonotum 

 transversely striated ; a narrow longitudinal furrow in the centre of 

 the middle lobe. Scutellum roundly convex, coarsely rugosely 

 punctured. Base of metanotum rugose ; the apical slope slightly 

 but distinctly hollowed, obscurely transversely striated ; its edges 

 keeled. Pleurae closely rugosely punctured ; the apex of the pro- 

 stoutly striated. Basal two segments of the abdomen stoutly, longi- 

 tudinally striated; the third and fourth rugosely punctured, irregularly 

 striated ; the apical segments smooth. Palpi long, white. Base or 

 mandibles rufous. Legs covered with a white pile. The long spur 

 of the hind tibiae does not reach to the middle of the metatarsus ; it 

 is as -long as the second joint. 



LIENELLA, gen. nov. 



Metanotum with fifteen areae in three rows ; the base obliquely 

 depressed in the middle. Wings without an areolet ; the transverse 

 cubital nervure short, not much longer than broad ; the recurrent 



