430 Annals of the South African Museum. 



inner, intermediate with two outer, posterior with two outer and 

 one inner tooth underneath, and five above, near the base, the teeth 

 small, ovipositor somewhat recurved. 



Length of body 33-38 mm. ; of prouotum 13-17 mm. ; of ovipositor 

 18 mm. ; of hind femur 21-22 mm. ; of hind tibiae 24-25 mm. 



Hob. Cape Colony (Knysna) ; (George), M. Wilman. 



HETRODES NAMAQUA, n. sp. 



The species is very closely allied to H. pupus, L. ; it seems to replace 

 it at some distance from Cape Town, and may prove ultimately to be 

 only a variety, but it is very constant ; whereas in H . pupus the dorsal 

 part of the abdominal segments bears five rows of spines, there are only 

 three distinct ones in H. namaqua. The sculpture of the pronotum 

 is more roughly coriaceous, and the hinder part of the pronotum is a 

 little more convex in the ^ ; the spines of the legs are always more 

 robust than in H. pupus. 



Length of body 31-45 mm. ; of pronotum 13-14^ mm. ; of ovi- 

 positor 13-15 mm. ; of hind femur 23i-26| mm. ; of hind tibiae 

 25|-29 mm. 



Hob. Cape Province (Uiteuhage), S. D. Bairstow ; Naniaqualand 

 (O'kiep, Spriugbokf ontein) , L. Peringuey. 



HETRODES ABBREVIATES, Walk. 

 Catal. Derm. Salt. Br. Mus. 2, 1869, p. 227. 



The two examples of what I take to be Walker's species greatly 

 resemble H. knysna, but apart from having three dorsal rows of spines 

 on the abdomen instead of four, these segments are not granular, as in 

 H. namaqua ; the ovipositor is slightly broader in proportion to the 

 size than in the other species. There are only three spines on the 

 upper basal part of the hind femora. 



Length of body 31-32 mm. ; of prouotum 14-15 mm. ; of ovipositor 

 14 mm. ; of hind femur 19 mm. ; of hind tibiae 19 mm. 



Hob. Cape Colony (Seymour), L. Pcringuey. 



GEN. HEMIHETBODES, Pict. 

 Mem. Soc. Phys. Gen. xxx, 1888, p. 74. 



H. perinyueyi, Pict., is the same species as H. bachmani, Karsch. I 

 collected the examples I sent to de Saussure in the very locality given 

 by Karsch for his species. 



It seems to be restricted to Naniaqualand and its confines. 



