380 Annals of the South African Museum. 



STICTOCRYPTTJS PETIOLAKIS, sp. iiov. 



? only. A clear testaceous species with the head except palpi and 

 labrum and mandibles, the antennae, sternum extending to lower part 

 of meso- and meta-pleurae, petiole, terebra and the third to sixth 

 segments, black ; frontal oi'bits, centre of flagelluin discally and the 

 seventh segment, white. Length, 13 mm. Extremely closely allied to 

 the Indian S. testaceus, Cam., Joe. cit. supra, but there the whole 

 metathorax is black in 5 , with a strong apical traiiscariua, which is 

 here represented only by equally acute apophyses ; the present species 

 has the post-petiole much more strongly and closely punctate, the head, 

 posteriorly broader, the size larger and wings a little navescent ; in all 

 other respects they agree ad amussim. 



The type was captured at Mfongosi in Zululand by W. E. Jones 

 during March, 1914 (firmly attached to one of its front calcaria by its 

 mandibles is a small testaceous myrmiciuous ant, Pheidole spec.). 



STICTOCRYPTUS OCTONARIUS, sp. nov. 



$ ? . A slender, clear testaceous species with the frous, occiput, 

 mandibular apices and most of the antennae alone black ; face, mouth, 

 all (in 3 except vertical) orbits broadly, centre of flagellum broadly, 

 eighth segment, and in $ the second and third hind tarsal joints, pure 

 white. Length, 9 mm. A very much more slender species than the 

 last, with abdomen narrower and fully double as long as the black 

 terebra, the metauotum feebly transbicarinate, postpetiole like the 

 remainder of abdomen finely shagreened (or in cf subglabrous), the 

 areolet small and hardly broader than high, but especially distinct in 

 the very strongly exserted eighth abdominal segment. The flagellar 

 joints are strongly elongate and the basal ones fulvidous ; the ? has 

 the centre of the sixth to apex of the twelfth, and the <$ the twelfth 

 to twenty-fourth, joints white. The association of the sexes is 

 arbitrary. 



The type occurred to W. Havgarth at Bulwer in Natal during 

 1914 ; and he also took the co-typical male at Durban in April, 1913. 



ETHA, Cameron. 



Mem. Manchester Lit. Phil. Soc, 1903, no. 14, p. 17. 

 Essential Characters. Face not centrally tuberculate ; areolet not 

 explauated above ; nor nervellus intercepted above its centre ; basal 

 segment but little explauate apically ; metathoracic spiracles linear 

 and elongate ; mouth normal and not rostriform. 



