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along the first transverse cubital nervure, its apex obliquely truncated, 
a wider cloud extending from the base of the cubitus to the base of the 
radius, from the stigma to the posterior edge of the wing and a small one 
on either side of the second transverse cubital extending slightly and 
roundly on to the radial cellule, yellowish hyaline, the stigma black, its 
base, except in front, yellowish ; the nervures black, yellowish along the 
central cloud ; the base of the hind wing narrowly hyaline and there is 
an oval longish cloud at the base of the cubitus. Abdomen closely, strongly 
reticulated punctured, the basal slope of the first and the apical two seg- 
ments smooth ; the area on base of second segment smooth at the base, 
the rest closely longitudinally striated ; ventral surface whitish, the basal 
four segments marked with black. Female. 
Length, 16 mm. ; terebra, 33 mm. 
“ Transvaal.” 
Head below the antennae sparsely covered with black hair ; there 
are a few hairs above them. Mesonotum sparsely covered with black hair ; 
the rest of the thorax and the legs more densely covered with white 
pubescence. The third abscissa of the radius is longer than the basal 
two united ; the recurrent nervure is received in the apex of the first cubital 
cellule. Front depressed, neither distinctly keeled nor furrowed. Face 
coarsely reticulated, the reticulations finer below. 
May be known from the two described species of Bacuma (maculi- 
ventris, Cam., and fumipennis , Cam., Annals South African Museum, V, 
68 and 69) by the red body and legs. 
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Hormiinae. 
Hormius, Nees. 
Hormius testaceus, sp. n. 
Testaceous ; the flagellum of the antennae, the lower part of the 
mesopleurae and the sides of the mesopleurae black, the legs of a paler 
colour than the body ; wings hyaline, the stigma pale, the nervures of a 
darker testaceous colour ; the first transverse cubital nervure sharply 
obliquely sloped, so that the second cubital cellule is much narrowed in 
front ; the first abcissa of the radius is a little longer than the second ; 
antennae twenty- two jointed. Metanotum reticulated. Female. 
Length, 2*5; terebra, *5 mm. 
Pretoria. December. 
Smooth, shining, bare ; first abdominal segment clearly separated, as 
wide as long, the second nearly as long as the third and fourth united. 
RHOGADINAE. 
Bhogas, Nees. 
The following is a synoptical table of the species of Bhogas described 
in this paper : — 
1 (2) Bed ; the head and apex of the abdomen black, the ptero- 
stigma black. erythrostomus. 
2 (1) Testaceous ; including the pterostigma. 
