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covered with grey tomentmn and with yellow pubescence. Palpi 

 black, broad at base, ending in a long tapering point, more 

 than a third of the length of proboscis, which is about as long 

 as the head and thorax combined. Antennae black, situated on 

 a slight tubercle covered with ashy-grey tomentum ; the first two 

 joints with some long black hairs, the first joint cylindrical, the 

 second small and round, half the length of the first joint ; the third 

 joint with five divisions, the first one broad and large, no tooth, but 

 with rounded borders, the last divisions very small. Forehead almost 

 parallel, wide, barely one and a half times longer than it is wide, 

 black and shining, with grey tomentose borders and a few scattered 

 white hairs ; ocelligerous tubercle distinct. Eyes bare. Thorax black 

 and shining, clothed with greyish-white pubescence and with longer 

 hairs at sides. Scittelluin black and shining, with yellowish hairs on 

 its posterior border. Abdomen shining black, reddish yellow on sides 

 of the first and second segments, the posterior borders from the second 

 segment onwards clothed with fringes of white "hairs on their posterior 

 borders ; sides with white hairs. Legs blackish, tibiae reddish yellow 

 on basal two-thirds, pubescence pale yellowish on femora, elsewhere 

 blackish. Wlnrjs grey, tinged yellow at base,,veins reddish yellow. 



A male in the Brit. Mus. Coll., from Saldauha Bay, 5 : ix : 191 '2 

 (K. H. Barnard), 1913, is presumably the male of this species, 

 but the abdomen is largely reddish yellow, the black colour appearing 

 as a broad black stripe on the first three segments, the apex black, 

 with short yellowish hairs on posterior borders of the segments, sides 

 with long, black and yellow hairs ; underside reddish yellow, black on 

 the last three segments. Legs blackish with long black hairs on the 

 femora and tibiae. Wings and veins darker in colouring. Forehead 

 is less wide but slightly narrower at vertex, shining black. Antennae 

 with longer and more numerous black hairs on the first two segments. 

 Pa1/>! with the first joint short, the second conical, clothed with long 

 hairs. Leno-th 9 mm. 



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METOPONAPLOS NIGRICANS, n. sp. 



Type (female) from Hott-Holl Mts., GOOD ft., Caledou, Cape Colony 

 (Barnard), 1916. From Cape Mus. Coll. 



A small black species, with no markings on the abdomen. Forehead 

 shining, broad. Legs blackish brown. Win (jit clear. Length 7 mm. 

 Face blackish, with grey tomeutum and white hairs. Palpi bi'ownish 

 with black hairs. Antennae reddish brown. Forehead black, shining, 

 with no lighter borders, not quite parallel, and about one and a half 

 times longer than its anterior width. Thorax and scut ell itm black. 



