Antals of the Transvaal Museum. 
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Amorphota densepilosella , sp. n. 
Black ; densely covered with silvery pubescence, the antennal scape 
rufous, the mandibles, except the teeth, palpi, and tegulae, yellow ; the 
abdomen rufo-testaceous, the basal segment entirely, the second above 
except at the apex, the greater part of the basal half of the third, the mark 
roundly narrowed at the apex, a longish conical mark in the middle of 
the basal half of the fourth, a similar but smaller mark on the fifth, and 
the greater part of the apical, black ; the genital sheath black ; the second 
and third ventral segments yellow. Legs rufo-testaceous ; the hind coxae 
and basal joint of hind trochanters black, the four anterior coxae black 
at the base ; the four anterior trochanters and the apical joint of the 
posterior yellow ; the spurs pale, the hind tarsi blackish. Wings hyaline, 
the stigma testaceous, the nervures black ; the areolet with a pedicle 
longer than the branches, the outer of which is a little longer than the 
inner ; the recurrent nervure received near the centre ; the disco- cubital 
nervure is bullated widely beyond the middle, the recurrent nervure is 
still more widely bullated, the transverse median nervure interstitial ; the 
apical nervures in the hind wings are faint, almost obsolete. There is a 
short keel near the base of the metanotum ; from it a keel runs obliquely 
to the sides, its apex reaching to the apex of the basal fourth for the meta- 
notum ; an indistinct keel borders the outer edge and one runs from the 
spiracles to the coxae ; the spiracles are small, oval, twice longer than 
wide. Hind ocelli separated from each other by double the distance they 
are from the eyes. Male. 
Length, 6 mm. 
Pretoria. 27th February. 
Antennae slightly longer than the body, densely covered with a 
microscopic pile. Head and thorax closely punctured, the punctures on 
the scutellum more widely separated than they are on the mesonotum ; 
on the base of the metanotum they are weaker ; the apical slope of the 
latter is strongly alutaceous, impunctate, more or less transversely striated. 
The pubescence on the head and metanotum is denser than elsewhere. The 
post-scutellum is striated on the apical half. 
Androna, gen. nov. 
Wings without an areola, the recurrent nervure received beyond the 
transverse cubital ; the transverse median interstitial ; the transverse 
median nervure in hind wings unbroken, the apical longitudinal nervures 
being obliterated ; the stigma large, gradually narrowed to a point in the 
middle, angled where the transverse cubital nervure is received at the 
apex of the basal third ; the radius issues from the middle of the stigma. 
Metanotum regularly areola ted, with three central and three lateral areae ; 
the areola longer than it is wide at the apex ; it is closed at the base ; the 
spiracles are small, oval ; there is a large, wide spiracular area. Abdominal 
petiole clearly dilated at the apex ; the other segments are compressed, 
but stout ; the ovipositor in the known species is shorter than the abdomen. 
Head transverse, the temples short, roundly narrowed. Apex of clypeus 
