132 Annals of the South African Museum. 



The head is dull, microscopically punctulate, with a few larger 

 punctures interspersed. The thorax is sub-nitidulous, moderately 

 and finely punctured, also with a few larger punctures interspersed. 

 The petiole is punctured and shining. The abdomen is very 

 shining, the dorsal surface very sparsely and finely punctulate. 

 The hypopygium is more or less rugulose and dull, the projections 

 somewhat shining externally. 



The above description is drawn from the specimen in the 

 collection of Dr. H. Brauns, Willowmore. Tbis specimen was 

 taken from the nest by Mr. G. A. K. Marshall at Salisbury, 

 S. Ehodesia. 



" $. 37 mm.; alar expanse, 46 mm. Eufo-testaceous, very pilose 

 upon the face, the thorax above and beneath, the coxae, also the 

 petiole below, the margins of the terminal segments above and 

 of the two last beneath, which are densely fringed. The head black 

 upon the vertex and behind ; face convex, sulcated in front of the 

 anterior ocellus ; the ocelli large, disposed in an equilateral triangle 

 on the vertex ; with about the diameter of one intervening between 

 the anterior ocellus and the posterior pair; antennae slender, 

 setaceous, the scape one-fourth the length of the organ ; mandibles 

 broad, nearly triangular, very slightly curved, the inner edge acute. 

 Thorax gibbous in front and at the scutellum ; prothorax very 

 distinct, and metathorax slightly produced and rounded posteriorly ; 

 wings sub-hyaline, their nervures robust and brown, the radial lost- 

 in a large dilated dark patch at the commencement of the marginal 

 cell ; the cubital slightly undulated, the first recurrent inserted just 

 beyond the middle of the first sub-marginal cell (cubital), and the 

 2nd recurrent half-way between the first and the termination of the 

 cell, and diverging obliquely towards the edge of the wing ; legs 

 castaneous, the femora elongate, ovate, compressed, their outline 

 slightly rounded above and below. Abdomen opaque, clavate, the 

 petiole transverse and quadrate convex, fringed at its apex, and very 

 pilose beneath, where it is slightly longitudinally carinated, not so- 

 wide as the 2nd segment [i.e. 1st abd. segment, mihi, G.A.] which 

 viewed above is nearly quadrate, the remainder all transverse ; of 

 these the penultimate and terminal are the largest, the latter deeply 

 emarginate in the middle, fimbriated along the edge, as are also the 

 two last ventral segments, the terminal of which is semicircular, and 

 the penultimate nearly quadrate." 



As I have had only a considerably damaged specimen before 

 my eyes, I have preferred to copy Shuckard's original description. 

 The S of this species is easily distinguished from all our other 



