Annals of the Tkansvaal Museum. 
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Dielis capensis Saus. 
Pretoria. July. 
Dielis transvaalensis , sp. n. 
Black ; the front, occiput, and the prothorax above densely covered 
with longish red hair ; the rest of the thorax and the apices of the basal 
four abdominal segments covered with clear white hair, as are also the apices 
of the second, third, and fourth ventral segments ; wings clear hyaline to 
the first transverse radial nervure, fuscous-violaceous beyond, the cloud 
roundly narrowed at the base ; there is a cloud in the posterior wings 
which commences opposite the base of that in the anterior pair. Legs 
thickly covered with long white hair ; the calcaria white. Female. 
Length, 16 mm. 
Pretoria. January. 
Head with a few scattered punctures at the ocelli and at the end of 
the vertex. Pronotum smooth ; the mesonotum strongly punctured ; a 
line of punctures on the base of the scutellum, and a larger, wider one on 
the sides of the apex ; the middle of the post-scutellum is smooth, the 
sides at the base punctured, and there is a line of punctures at the apex. 
Metanotum more closely, but not so strongly punctured as the mesonotum. 
Abdomen smooth, shining, and with a violaceous tinge ; before the apex 
of the segments is a transverse line of punctures, each bearing a white hair ; 
the last segment is strongly, closely, longitudinally punctured. 
POMPILIDAE. 
S alius Fab. 
Salius lineaticollis , sp. n. 
Black ; the antennae, head, mandibles, palpi, the prothorax, except 
a black line down the centre of the pronotum, a broader one across its 
base and a still broader and more irregular one across the base of the 
prosternum, the mesopleurae, except round the edges, a small curved 
line in the centre of the metapleurae at the apex, the fifth and following 
segments of the abdomen, and the legs, yellowish-testaceous ; wings deep 
fuscous-violaceous ; the nervures black ; the third abscissa of radius as 
long as the basal two united ; the second recurrent nervure received shortly 
before the middle, roundly curved outwardly in the middle. Claws with 
two teeth. An irregular black line across the vertex, enclosing the ocelli 
and united to the eyes. Female. 
Length, 20 mm. 
Zusterstoom, Zoutpansberg. February. 
The third joint of the antennae is nearly as long as the following two 
united ; eyes distinctly converging above ; the hinder ocelli separated 
from each other by about the same distance as they are from the eyes. 
Apex of clypeus transverse, with the sides broadly rounded ; labrum 
large, semicircular ; occiput broadly rounded, not much developed ; 
apex of pronotum broadly rounded, margined with black, a shallow 
f u rrow down its centre ; mesonotum and scutellum flat, smooth, 
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