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NEW CHALCID-FLIES FROM CAPE COLONY. 
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and only one-half longer than wide. Ovipositor exerted. Head one 
and one-half times as high as wide and twice as wide as thick antero- 
posteriorly. Antennae inserted low down on the face, very slender, 
with a Avhite annulus on the fiagellum. Face with a large, but very 
slight depression. JNIalar furrow present. Eyes bare, showing a 
faint pubescence only under a compound microscope; elongate-oval, 
convergent above. Ocelli in a rather small triangle, the lateral ones 
near to, but not contiguous with the ej-e-margin. Prothorax very 
much contracted in front. Mesonotum sloping very strongly in front, 
the parapsidal elevations very sharply defined, especially behind. 
Scutellum narrow, almost as long as the mesonotum, with a broad base 
against the mesonotum, the axillae triangular, three times as long 
as Made in front, the outer edges of the two axillae slightly converg- 
ing behind. Scutellum narrowed behind the tips of the axillae to a 
slightly rounded point. Posterior face of the metanotum with an 
irregular large anterior areola and a smaller posterior one. First to 
sixth abdominal segments of about equal length, the seventh short; 
posterior angles of the sixth and seventh roundly produced so as to 
make the tip of the abdomen quadridentate. Legs very short, the 
middle tibiae with a large stout spur, their metatarsi spinose. Hind 
tibiae with two very small, delicate spurs, one of them almost obsolete. 
Wings entirely absent. Type. P. aptcra. 
The type species is of very peculiar appearance due to its 
flattened abdomen and long, slender antennae and legs. It falls 
near Solindcuia Cameron, from which it differs by the complete 
absence of wings, very slender antennas, and distinctly exerted 
ovipositor. 
Parasolindenia aptera sp. nov. 
Female. Length 3.4 mm, width of abdomen 1.75 mm. Pale 
brown, the head bronzed black; the abdomen and pleurae more or less 
bronzed. Head shining, but microscopically punctured or shagreened. 
Base of mandibles brownish. Antennae 13-jointed, scape very slender, 
not at all thickened apically, rufous; fiagellum slender, black, two and 
one-half times as long as the scape, its sixth and seventh joints pure 
white. Scutellum, axillae, and anterior enclosure of the metanotum 
paler brown than the mesonotum. Abdomen fuscous, with indis- 
tinctly bronzed surface. Its surface has a silken appearance due to 
a thick appressed brownish pubescence over which are scattered 
