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Stizus erythraspis, sp. n. 
Black ; the greater part of the head, of the pro thorax, scutellums, 
the apices of the third and following dorsal segments of the abdomen, a 
line down the middle of the fourth and following the greater part of the 
ventral surface, the antennae and legs, ferruginous ; the antennal scape, 
face, clypeus, except a ferruginous large mark on the top, roundly narrowed 
in the middle, labrum, mandibles, except the apex, a line on the apex of 
the pronotum, an oblique line, narrowed inwardly, in the centre of the 
first abdominal segment, on the outer third, and larger, wider spots, of 
almost equal width and rounded on the inner side in the centre of the 
second, third, fourth, and fifth, and similar spots on the sides of the third 
and fourth ventral segments, yellow ; head, thorax, and base of abdomen 
densely covered with longish white pubescence, the rest of abdomen with 
the pubescence shorter and sparser ; wings hyaline, largely tinged with 
fulvous, especially in front ; the first transverse cubital nervures straight, 
oblique, the second and third oblique, roundly curved ; the first recurrent 
nervure is received shortly before the middle ; the second is broadly, 
roundly curved outwardly on the front half, and is received close to the 
apex of the cellule ; the median cellule in hind wings emits two nervures. 
Female. 
Length, 22 mm. 
Waterval No. 211, Zoutpansberg District. November. 
Head distinctly narrower than the thorax ; clypeus wider than long, 
but not double ; eyes slightly converging below ; labrum wider than 
long, raised in the centre ; malar space very short ; the sides of the meso- 
notum, the top of mesopleurae narrowly, and the tubercles, are ferruginous ; 
tibiae and tarsi strongly spinose ; hinder ocelli separated from each other 
by double the distance they are from the eyes ; tegulae ferruginous in front, 
yellow behind ; mesonotum and scutellum finely and closely punctured ; 
the lower part of the occiput is black, the line widened in the middle. 
This species comes close in some respects to S. dewitzii Handl., a Cape 
species, but is larger ; the two may be separated thus : 
Antennae broadly black in the middle, head and prothorax for the greater part black? 
the scutellums and legs at the base black, the wings tinged with fuscous, the 
nervures black. Dewitzii , Hand. 
Antennae, head, and scutellums ferruginous, the legs not black at the base, the wings 
hyaline, tinged with fulvous, the nervures fulvous. Erythraspis. 
Bembex Oliv. 
Bernbex olivata Dbm. 
Handlirsch, Sitzber. Akad. Wiss. Wien., cii (1893), 812, pi. ii, f. 17, 
pi. v, f. 23 ; Bingham, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, X, 1902, 211. 
Olifants Biver. 
Bembex capensis Lep. 
Handlirsch, l.c. supra , 853, 94, T. iii, f. 4, 26. 
Olifants River. 
Bembex testaceicaudo,, sp. n. 
Black ; the head, thorax, and base of abdomen densely covered with 
longish white pubescence, the hair on the front and vertex whiter, more 
