JAN. 1907. 
NEW CHALCID-FLIES FROM CAPE COLONY. 
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One female from Algoa Bay, Cape Colony. 
A species of rather remarkable aspect. The abdomen is con- 
vex above and shape and texture departs from the more typical 
Kupelmina?, recalling in superficial appearance certain Scelionidse 
except that there is no lateral carina. It would seem similar in 
some ways to Arachnophaga Ashmead, which has no malar fur- 
row ; it is also fully winged. 
Eupelmus nubifer sp. nov. 
Female. Leng-th 4 mm. Ovipositor 1 mm. Black, the head and 
the pleurae strongly blue, the thoracic dorsum and abdomen less 
strong'ly bronzed. Scape of antennae and legs varied with brownish 
yellow; ovipositor pale. Wing-s with a larg-e fuscous cloud. Head 
tw^o and one-half times as wide as thick, with a coarsely reticulate 
sculpture partially cancealing a fine transverse aciculation. On the 
occiput and cavity of the face the reticulations disappear and the 
transverse aciculations show plainly; cheeks shag-reened; clypeus with 
rug-osities and punctures intermixed. Mandibles and palpi black. 
Flagellum of antennte slender, a little more than twice as long- as the 
scape, pedicel a trifle long-er than the first flagellar joint; ring joint 
quadrate; flagellar joints gradually shortening, the penultimate quad- 
rate, one-half as long as the apical joint. Prothorax evenly narrowed 
anteriorly, three-fifths as long' as wide, obliquely aciculate on each 
side; mesonotum shagreened, with a trace of transverse aciculation 
anteriorly; parapsidal elevations parallel, very distinct but not sharp 
above, the posterior margin of the segment raised, then suddenly de- 
clivous and more or less distinctly trilobed. Anterior median eleva- 
tion rounded in front and tapering to a point just behind the middle 
of the mesonotum. Scutellum rounded behind, with a moderately 
wdde base against the mesonotum; scapulae about two times as long 
as wide. ^retathorax very short; pleurae shagreened. Abdomen 
spatulate, the posterior margins of the basal segments strongh' incised, 
not quite as long' as the head and thorax together. Dorsal surface con- 
cave, except at the tip. Legs rather slender, blue-black; the middle 
and posterior trochanters, all knees, bases and tips of tibiae, and tarsi 
except tips, honey-yellow or lignter. Marginal vein one-third longer 
than the submarg-inal ; postmarginal and stigmal short, about equal, 
the stigmal curved and but slightly knobbed at the tip. 
One female from Bothaville, Orange Free State, May 15, 1899. 
