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near the apical third of the cellule ; the accessory nervure in hind 

 wings received beyond the cubitus. The eyes converge distinctly 

 above and below, reach to the base of the mandibles ; median seg- 

 ment with a broadly rounded slope and not furrowed in the centre. 

 The long spur of the hind tibiae reaches beyond the middle of meta- 

 tarsus. Labrum furrowed in the middle. Mandibles with a long 

 curved apical tooth. 



This species does not fit very well into any of Dr. Ashmead's 

 genera of Anoplini. I therefore leave it, for the present, in Anoplius 

 (Pomjnlus) in the old sense. 



DIPLOPTEBA. 



Gen. ICAEIA, Sauss. 



ICARIA CAPENSIS, SaUSS. 



What I take to be this species is in the Grahamstown Museum 

 Collection from Douglas. The worker only has been described. 

 The female is similarly coloured, and 12-13 mm. long. The male 

 has the lower part of the front, the face, clypeus, and man- 

 dibles yellow ; the antennae are blackish above, testaceous and 

 yellow below ; the sixth to twelfth joints project below, forming 

 a serrated edge ; the projections on the eighth to eleventh are 

 sharper, more oblique and distinct than on the others ; the last joint 

 is curved, stout, distinctly narrowed at the apex. It is a variable 

 species as regards colouration ; there may be three large black marks 

 on the mesonotum ; the pleurae may be for the greater part black, 

 and there may be a yellow line on the first abdominal segment. The 

 radial cellule may be clouded. 



Gen. SMITHIA, Sauss. 

 Smithia ? eufipes, sp. nov. 



Black; the under side of the antennal scape, clypeus, a line on the 

 apex of the pronotum, the tegulae and the apex of the basal two 

 abdominal segments yellow ; legs rufous, flagellum of antennae 

 fuscous, darker above ; wings hyaline, tinged with fuscous viola- 

 ceous. $ . 



Length 7 mm. 



Cape Colony. Brak Kloof. 



Head closely and coarsely punctured ; the clypeus sparsely punc- 

 tured ; its apex black, depressed ; it is roundly convex, sparsely 

 pilose. Pro- and meso-thorax closely, strongly punctured. Median 



