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Gen. ASPHEAGIS, Foer. 



ASPHRAGIS ? RUFIPES, Sp. nOV. 



Head pale bright yellow, the front and vertex broadly in the centre 

 and the occiput black ; the thorax red, the pro- and meta-notum 

 black ; abdomen black, the third and fourth segments for the greater 

 part dull rufous above ; legs coloured like the thorax, the tarsi 

 darker in tint ; wings clear hyaline, the stigma dark fuscous. $ . 



Length 6 mm. 



Cape Colony. Stellenbosch. 



Scape of antennae dull red below ; basal joints of flagellum elon- 

 gate ; the first slightly longer than the second. Head closely and 

 strongly punctured ; the punctures on the front and vertex more 

 distinctly separated than they are on the face ; the clypeus, except 

 above, smooth. Mandibles pale yellow, their teeth black, the part 

 behind them rufous. Palpi testaceous. Thorax closely and strongly 

 punctured ; scutellar depression smooth and shining ; the meta- 

 notum more coarsely punctured than the mesonotum ; there is one 

 stout transverse keel on the apical slope ; the part on either side of 

 this is irregularly striated. Tibiae sparsely, the tarsi more thickly 

 spinose ; legs long and slender ; the fore tarsi longer than the tibiae. 

 The transverse median nervure is received shortly beyond the trans- 

 verse basal ; the apical nervures in the hind wings are faint ; the 

 transverse cubital nervure is broken below the middle. 



This may not be an Asphragis, which has the claws closely pecti- 

 nated, whereas here the pectinations are few and widely separated. 



Gen. CHAEOPS, Holmgren. 

 Charops spinitarsis, sp. nov. 



Black ; the four anterior legs bright yellow, the hinder dark red, 

 their tibiae and tarsi darker coloured than the femora ; all the coxae 

 black ; the basal joint of hind femora black, the apical yellow ; the 

 abdomen rufous, blackish above ; wings clear hyaline, the nervures 

 and stigma blackish. $ . 



Length 10 mm. 



Cape Colony. Stellenbosch. 



Head and thorax covered thickly with white pubescence, the 

 pubescence longest on the face and outer eye orbits. Head and 

 thorax closely and distinctly punctured. Propleurae strongly 

 striated, the striae distinctly separated, except above ; the hollowed 

 middle and the apex of the mesopleurae are less strongly striated ; 

 the upper part of the metapleurae is irregularly obliquely striated, 



