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tubercles, a large mark on the scutellum, roundly narrowed laterally 

 and the tubercles, bright lemon-yellow ; the knees, tibiae and tarsi 

 rufous, the fore femora with the apical third lemon-yellow below. 

 Scape of antennae rufous, the flagellum fuscous below. Wings 

 hyaline, the stigma and nervures dark fuscous. 2 • 



Length 5-6 mm. 



Cape Colony. Kokstad ; Brak Kloof. 



Smooth and shining, including the clypeus ; labrum strongly 

 punctured ; the base of metanotum aciculated, broadly depressed 

 in the middle. Mandibles black. Base and apex of abdomen 

 blackish ; the latter with scattered white hairs. Hind tibiae infus- 

 cated in the middle. Both the recurrent nervures are received close 

 to the cubitals. 



Allodape fuscinervis, sp. nov. 



Black, shining, the abdominal segments narrowly banded with 

 fuscous at the apex, antennal flagellum brownish below ; the mark 

 on the clypeus dilated above and below, the central stem with 

 irregular edges ; the cross top part transverse above, the sides 

 straight, the lower side slightly dilated at the outer edge, the whole 

 thinner than the central stem ; the dilated apex larger, transverse 

 below, laterally extending to the longitudinal facial furrows, the 

 upper part with the yellow suffused into fulvous ; wings clear 

 hyaline, the stigma and nervures fuscous ; the recurrent nervures 

 received about the same distance from the cubitals ; tegulae 

 piceous. 2 • 



Length 5 mm. 



Cape Colony. Brak Kloof. 



Clypeus closely, minutely and distinctly punctured, most strongly 

 at the apex. Labrum yellowish, with two large punctures on either 

 side. Apex of mandibles broadly piceous. Frontal furrow narrow, 

 distinct. Metanotal area opaque, strongly aciculated. Tubercles pale 

 yellow, fringed above with pale hair. Hair on legs long and silvery 

 white ; the apices of tarsi testaceous. 



Gen. CEOCISA, Jurine. 



Crocisa fulvo-hirta, sp. nov. 



Black; the head, pronotum, pleurae, base of metanotum and bands, 

 broader than long and extended backwards along the sides, near the 

 apices of the basal four abdominal segments, the bands not reaching 

 to the middle, of pale fulvous, longish pubescence, the temples, 

 centre of mesonotum and metanotum, tjhe lower side of the pleurae 



