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so dense in the occipital part as on the prothorax ; antennae 

 long, first joint flail-like, second and third long, conical, fourth 

 to tenth short, obconical, as broad across the apex as long, 

 ultimate joint a little longer than the two together, oblong, and 

 compressed, all the joints are densely and very briefly pubescent, 

 and without bristly hairs ; prothorax broader than long with 

 both the anterior and posterior angles rounded, and the sides 

 slightly ampliated, more deeply arcuate along the base than in 

 the anterior part, depressed along the outer discoidal part, especially 

 behind, moderately plane on the disk, and with only a faint im- 

 pressed, median longitudinal line, and without any distinct transverse 

 impression above the base ; scutellum triangular, short ; elytra 

 slightly narrower at the base than the prothorax at its widest part, 

 and longer with the shoulders more rounded than the outer apical 

 margin, closely punctulate ; abdominal segments sparingly punctu- 

 late and sparsely pubescent, but having a series of distinct 

 setigerous punctures along the apical margin, ultimate one simple, 

 truncate ; under side and legs densely pubescent ; hind tarsi very 

 long, basal joint nearly twice as long as the second. 



Length 8 ram. ; width 3 mm. 



Hub. Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe). D. Dods. 



MYRMEDONIA ILLOTULA, n. sp. 



Testaceous-yellow, with the frontal part and the five penultimate 

 abdominal segments black, antennal joints with the exception of the 

 three basal ones, sub-ferruginous ; elytra with a broad but some- 

 what faint apical fuscous patch ; frontal part simple, space between 

 the antennai very slightly raised, punctuation and pubescence very 

 scattered ; antennae reaching almost to the apex of the elytra, 

 somewhat robust, the intermediate joints are broadly conical, short, 

 being slightly wider at the tip than long, and set moderately close, 

 the tiltimate one is not longer than the two preceding taken 

 together ; prothorax broader than long, with the sides sinuate and 

 the posterior angle not rounded, the anterior one being only slightly 

 so, the base is narrower than the apex and more arcuate, there is a 

 juxta marginal longitudinal impression on each side of the posterior 

 part, and a small transverse impression along the base, the posterior 

 part of the lateral margins seems reflex ed owing to the adjoining 

 lateral impression, and the surface is briefly but densely pubescent ; 

 the elytra are deeply and closely punctate and densely pubescent ; 

 the surface of the upper part of the abdominal segments is almost 



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