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furrows are narrow, deep and striated ; the first is not cleft at the 

 sides ; there are four furrows of equal width and depth and all 

 closely striated. The third abscissa of the radius is curved and is 

 also long as the second cubital abscissa ; the recurrent nervure 

 is received near the apex of the first cubital cellule. 



The middle lobe of the mesonotum is clearly separated, especially 

 at the apex where the farrows are broad. Antennal scape short. 

 The sides of the seventh abdominal segment armed with four short 

 teeth ; the centre at the apex roundly incised ; the sixth segment 

 denticulate all round the apex, the teeth longer and more distinct 

 at the sides, where, on the outer side, they are more widely sepa- 

 rated. The apical segments are more distinctly reticulated than the 

 basal. The third segment has a smooth, shining space on the sides 

 near the base ; the fourth to sixth with smooth, lateral depressions. 



The $ wants the teeth on the apical abdominal segments, of 

 which there are only six ; the last is broadly rounded at the apex. 



Gen. METEOBUS, Haliday. 

 Meteorus capensis, sp. nov. 



Black, shining ; the coxae and trochanters testaceous, the femora 

 darker testaceous, the tibiae and tarsi blackish ; wings hyaline, 

 iridescent, the stigma black, the nervures pale. $ . 



Length 4-5 mm. 



Cape Colony. Stellenbosch. 



Antennae much longer than the body, fuscous at the base, covered 

 with a close microscopic pile. Head shining, aciculated ; malar 

 space with some irregular striae. Clypeus more strongly aciculated 

 than the face ; its sides above bordered by a deep depression, 

 Mandibles brownish ; palpi blackish. Middle lobe of mesonotum 

 aciculated, opaque, pilose ; the lateral bare and shining ; the 

 furrows closely, irregularly rugose. Upper part of mesopleurae 

 rugose, the oblique depression on the lower half irregularly 

 striated. Median segment coarsely, irregularly rugose, the meta- 

 notum almost reticulated ; on the upper edge of the pleurae are 

 two curved keels with some striae between them. Petiole closely, 

 distinctly longitudinally striated ; the other segments smooth and 

 shining. Legs pilose ; the pubescence longer and white on the 

 femora, shorter, darker, and closer on the tibiae and tarsi. Wing 

 nervures pale ; the second cubital cellule is distinctly narrowed in 

 front ; the transverse median nervure is received shortly beyond 

 the basal ; the recurrent shortly in front of the transverse cubital ; 



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