JULY, 1906. 
PARASITIC HYMENOPTEBA FROM CAPE COLONY. 
Ill 
tip of the fourth abdominal segment. Wings fuscous ; the basal 
half hyaline with a fuscous band ; and the apical half with two 
more or less distinct hyaline spots, one anterior and one posterior. 
Submarginal vein distinct on the basal half. Stigma well-devel- 
oped ,piceous, drawn out into a point where the stigmal vein 
should be, the latter absent. Hind wings hyaline. 
This species resembles the preceding on account of its simil- 
arly marked \yings. The vertex, mesonotum and scutellum .are 
smooth and polished, however. The legs are also lighter in color, 
and the wings have a well developed stigma. 
Described from 6 female specimens, five from Algoa Bay, 
November 29 and February 6, 1896, and one from Uitenhage, 
Capland, October 16, 1896. All were collected by Dr. Brauns. 
FAMILY ENCYRTIDyE. 
MKTAPELMA MIRABILIS Sp. llOV. 
Female. Length 9 mm, including ovipositor which is almost 
as long as the abdomen. Head and thorax greenish aeneous, the 
abdomen black, with greenish and purplish reflections. Legs 
piceous or black, the base of the posterior tibiae white. Body 
covered everywhere with a dense, short, whitish pubescence. 
Head with coarse scattered punctures, the surface strongly sha- 
greened ; blackish on the front and very green below and behind. 
Mandibles fuscous with black tips ; palpi black. Antennae black, 
the scape strongly widened toward the tip : pedicel two times as 
long as the first flagellar joint ; second nearly as long as the scape ; 
wollowin^ distinctly shorter, except the last, nearly quadrate but 
not moniliform ; last pointed, being obliquely and sharply trun- 
cated. Eyes strongly hairy. Pronotum and mesonotum shining- 
green, with purplish reflections ; very faintly shagreened, almost 
smooth. Axillae and scutellums purplish black, the former with 
their points meeting medially. Metathorax short, depressed, 
abdomen gradually narrowed from the tip of the first segment to 
the ovipostor which is almost as long as the adbomen. First 
segment very long, second, third and fourth equal, each two-thirds 
the length of the first ; all entire on the apical margin. Fifth, 
sixth and seventh segments narrower and very short. Ovipositor 
apical, very slender and knife-like, black with greenish reflections. 
Venter black, with faint reflections. Coxae and anterior femora 
greenish, anterior tibiae and tarsi brownish ; middle legs piceous, 
the tibiae lighter at tip, their spur three-fourths of the length of 
