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271) states that Smith’s West African H. melanopyrus has a long coxal 
spine. He also states that in the British Museum there is another species 
which stands in the collection under the name of Paranysson abdominale 
Guer., the description of which is very slight. In the Indian species ( H . 
assimilis Bing.) the coxal spines are mere tubercles. There is no mention 
made by Smith of the four clypeal teeth found in my species, nor by 
Bingham in his Indian one. 
Gorytes Latr. 
Gorytes transvaalensis, sp. n. 
Black ; covered with a white primrose pile ; the antennal scape’ 
and the basal three or four joints of the antennae except on the top, the 
apex of the clvpeus, the sides more broadly than the centre, the basal 
half of the mandibles, almost the lower third of the inner orbits broadly, 
a line, widened laterally, on the apex of the pronotum, tubercles, tegulae, 
apical third of the scutellum, a narrow line dowm the apex of the pro- 
pleurae, a band, triangularly widened backwards to near the base on the 
apex of the first abdominal segment, a narrower one, slightly dilated 
laterally on the second, a still narrower one, not dilated, on the third, 
almost the apical half of the fourth, the whole of the fifth and sixth and 
the sixth ventral, an irregular spot on the mesopleurae close to the tuber- 
cles, the legs, except the femora above, the hind tibiae and the basal joint 
of the hind tarsi, rufo-testaceous ; wings hyaline, the radial cellule, except 
narrowly at the base, the second cubital cellule except narrowly behind, 
and the anterior fourth of the third, fuscous-violaceous ; the stigma testa- 
ceous; the transverse anal nervure in the hind wing interstitial. Female. 
Length, 6 mm. 
V. d. Merwe. December. 
Vertex from the posterior ocelli and the front bearing fine, but distinct 
punctures, which are larger and more numerous on the front than on the 
vertex ; eyes slightly converging above, the hinder separated from each 
other by a little greater distance than they are from the eyes ; mesonotum 
distinctly, but not very closely punctured ; scutellum with a few weak 
punctures in the centre ; metanotal area clearly defined and bearing about 
thirteen keels, the lateral and central reaching to the apex, the others to 
shortly beyond the middle ; the rest of the metanotum is punctured like 
the mesonotum, as is also the mesopleurae ; the propleural furrow is 
striated closely on lower half ; there is a curved punctured band on the 
base of the metapleurae, the rest bears fine, scattered punctures ; pygidial 
area smooth at the base, the centre somewhat strongly punctured, the 
apex more or less irregularly striated ; the dorsal segments of the abdomen 
are weakly, sparsely punctured ; the second ventral strongly punctured, 
the others more weakly punctured, except at the base ; there are four 
long spines on the basal joint of the fore tarsi, and one on the second and 
third ; the hind tibiae and tarsi are sparsely covered with whitish yellow 
spines ; apex of clypeus sinuated, depressed, clearly separated ; third 
autennal joint not quite double the length of the fourth- 
