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below, lemon-yellow. Antennal scape rufous below. Legs black, 

 the knees and fore tibiae rufous. Wings hyaline, the stigma and 

 nervures black. J . 



Length 5 mm. 



Cape Colony. Pearston. 



Labrum and tips of mandibles brownish ; the former with scat- 

 tered punctures. Head and thorax smooth and shining ; the base 

 of metanotum strongly aciculated ; the pleurae sparsely pilose. 

 Apical segments of abdomen punctured and covered with white 

 pubescence. The hair on the legs whitish, long and dense on the 

 hind tibiae, on the hind tarsi it is darker coloured. The second 

 cubital cellule in front narrowed, being there not much more than 

 half of its length behind ; the second transverse cubital nervure is 

 straight and oblique ; the first recurrent nervure is received close 

 to the first transverse cubital, almost touching it ; the second is 

 received further from the apex. 



Allodape nigrinervis, sp. nov. 



Black, smooth and shining, the apex of clypeus shagreened ; a 

 large yellow mark down its centre ; it is broadly dilated above, the 

 upper edge roundly incised, the narrowed lower part becoming 

 narrowed below, its sides irregular ; the apex and the labrum 

 fuscous, the latter with a few large punctures. Wings hyaline, the 

 stigma and nervures black, the first recurrent nervure received 

 at twice the distance from the base, that the second is from the 

 apex. ? . 



Length nearly 5 mm. 



Cape Colony. Pearston. 



Ocellar region minutely punctured ; the frontal furrow acute ; 

 fiagellum brownish below ; there is a row of punctures along the 

 lower inner orbits, inside the keel ; metanotal area minutely punc- 

 tured ; tegulae fuscous, yellow on the outer side ; below and slightly 

 in front of tegulae is a large pale yellow mark, longer than broad, 

 with straight sides. The hair on the legs thick, long, white, darker 

 coloured on the tarsi which are tinged with testaceous ; the spurs 

 pale testaceous. As usual the apical abdominal segments are punc- 

 tured and pilose. Wings highly iridescent. The lower edges of 

 the top part of the clypeal mark are rounded and do not project 

 downwards. 



Allodape pringlei, sp. nov. 



Black ; a large mushroom-shaped mark on the clypeus, dilated 

 below, but not so widely as above, a broad line on the pronotum, 



