The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . e end of 5 as is its own length. Size just over 3 mm. Locality the same. Epimadiza nitida, sp. n. The single well-preserved specimen is fairly near E, rugosa,Beck., but it is a very distinct and brilliant little insect. Head (top view) :—All excessively shining; triangle as inlast species, but even less well defined by the hair-rows ; faceorange, with two small black spots just over the mouth-margin ; antennas as in E. nigra, orange, but a little suffusedon the 3rd joint apically. Side-view : lower anterior eye-margin d
The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . e end of 5 as is its own length. Size just over 3 mm. Locality the same. Epimadiza nitida, sp. n. The single well-preserved specimen is fairly near E, rugosa,Beck., but it is a very distinct and brilliant little insect. Head (top view) :—All excessively shining; triangle as inlast species, but even less well defined by the hair-rows ; faceorange, with two small black spots just over the mouth-margin ; antennas as in E. nigra, orange, but a little suffusedon the 3rd joint apically. Side-view : lower anterior eye-margin dark orange, merging into the shining black jowls,which are nearly parallel to the lower eye-margin and areabout the depth of 3rd joint. Palpi bright orange, tongueblack. 23* 348 Mr. C. G. Lamb on Exotic Chloropidse. Thorax as in last species, but much more shining, thepleural and the two scutellar bristles long, the scutellum withside-rows of four or five smaller ones ; pleura very shiningblack. Wings clear, with pale veins (fig. 19). Halteres brightorange. Fig. Epimadiza nitida, x 30. Legs : front pair—the long coxa and the trochanter brightorange, femur (except at base), tibia, and tarsus (except lasttwo yellow joints) all shining black : mid and hind pairs—coxa black, trochanter dark orange, femur black (except thetip), the rest yellow, Abdomen all shining black. Size 2i mm. Natal : Durban (F. Muir, Camb. Coll.). Anatrichus, erinaceus, Loew. Specimens of the form with darkened front tarsi and ofthat with bright legs are in the Camb. Coll. from Durban{F. Muir). Var. jygmcea.—There is a remarkable form from Ceylonwhich is practically identical with the darker variety of thetype, but is only about f of its length. Ceylon: Peradeniya (J. C. F. Fryer, Camb. Coll.). [To be continued.] Mr. li. E. Turner on Fo&sorial llymenoptera. -J49 XLI.—Notes on Fossorial llymenoptera.—XXXIV. OnEthiopian Psainmochaiidae in the British Museum. ByRowland E. Turner, ,
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