198 Annals of tlie South African Museum. 



TRIBE LISTRODROMIDES. 



NEOTYPUS, Piirst, 

 Ver. pr. Bheinl. 1868, p. 194. 







NEOTYPTJS CONFLATUS, Mori. 

 Ann. S. Afr. xv, 1916, p. 359, 9 . 



(J . A very robust, and somewhat small, dark red male with black 

 and several white markings. Head stramineous with the frons, vertex 

 and part of occiput, mandibular apices, a line down the buccate 

 cheeks and another down centre of face, Mack ; vertical marks, cheeks 

 externally and more or less of occiput rufescent ; face finely and 

 sparsely punctate, frons glabrous and excariuate, and vertex not 

 broad. Antennae very short and stout; scape black with its under 

 side and apex white; flagellum immaculate brunneous, filiform, of 

 25 transverse joints, only the three basal being longer than broad 

 and of these the first is shorter than the second. Thorax nitidulous. 

 short and hardly longer than high, with sternum and freuum and 

 basal metanotal sulcus black, callosities before and below radices 

 and whole of the transverse postscutellum white ; mesonotum deeply 

 and sparsely punctate, with no notauli ; mesopleurae glabrous, with 

 similar puucturation and the sternauli half their length ; metathorax 

 very short and subreticulate with petiolar area deeply impressed, 

 parallel-sided and rising nearly to base, where is a small and 

 strongly transverse areola ; costulae strong, spiracles large and 

 linear. Scutellum not small, simply convex, shining and sparsely 

 punctate, laterally carinate to near apex. Abdomen subelongate- 

 ovate, shining with the transverse second and third segments dull, 

 very dark red with apices of all segments but the third broadly 

 flavous ; petiole long and slender, postpetiole abruptly explanate, 

 glabrous with a few central punctures; second and third segments 

 closely punctate, with gastrocoeli of the former deeply impressed 

 and not small ; valvulae white. Legs black, stout and not short ; 

 all the coxae, inner side of anterior tibiae and apices of their femora 

 below, white ; anterior tarsi and remainder of their tibiae rufescent ; 

 hind coxae evenly punctate ; tarsi not pectinate. Wings hyaline ; 

 radix and tegulae stramineous ; stigma nigrescent and not narrow ; 

 basal nervure subvertical, and the lower basal distinctly a little 

 antefurcal ; discoidal cell short and broad, emitting short ramellus 

 and another slight nervure from centre of second recurrent, which 

 rises from centre of the somewhat large and subquadrate areolet ; 



