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CTENOCHARES THYRIDIENS, sp. nov. 



$ only. A small, somewhat pale brick-red species with the head, 

 anus and part of hind legs quite black. Head scabrously punctate 

 and, behind the eyes, obliquely constricted ; cheeks elongate ; clypeus 

 not broad, its base hardly discreted with distinct foveae, its apex 

 somewhat strongly rounded and in centre a little impressed ; mandibles 

 except apically and palpi red, the former very slender and acuminate 

 with the lower tooth minute; scrobes large. Antennae slender and 

 filiform with basal flagellar joints elongate, the ninth to twelfth dis- 

 cally white, and remainder black. Thorax slender, cylindrical, immacu- 

 late, dull and coriaceously punctate, with no notauli ; metathorax 

 elongate with no carinae, apophyses obsolete, spiracles elongate. Scu- 

 telluni fradmn. Abdomen very slender, closely punctate and dull, with 

 the fifth to seventh segments black and the last discally white-marked ; 

 postpetiole slender and subgiabrous, broader than high ; second 

 segment impressed at its extreme base, its thyridii deep and not large, 

 situated at the basal third of the segment and far remote from its base ; 

 anus subcompressed, with the black terebra somewhat exserted. Legs 

 slender and elongate with apical half of the hind femora and tibiae 

 black, their tarsi inf uscate ; outer side of hind tibiae with some nine 

 stout setae. Wings narrow and quite hyaline, with the nervures pale 

 and stigma luteous ; basal nervure continuous, areolet broad and not 

 large, emitting the strongly angled recurrent from its centre. Length, 

 9 mm. By no means a typical member of this genus, and far more 

 like Ischnus in its slender body and remote thyridii; but the meta- 

 thoracic spiracles are not circular. 



The type is from Barberton in the Transvaal, where Miss H. 

 Edwards captured it during April, 1911. 



SUBFAMILY CRYPTINAE. 

 TRIBE PHYGADEUONIDES. 

 SUBTRIBE PHYGADEUONINI. 



PHYGADETJON, Grav. 

 Ichn. Europ. 1827. 



PHYGADEUON BITINCTUS, Gmel. 



Syst. Nat. xii, 1788, i, p. 2719 ; Morley, Ichn. Brit, 1907, ii, p. 74. 

 One female was found at Clauwilliau in Cape Colony by E. P. 

 Phillips during September, 1911. Palaearctic. 



