102 Annals oj the South Africu/i Museum. 



specimen the last tergite is partly divided. The 7 or 8 anterior 

 tergites are provided with lateral keels and produced posteriorly 

 into a spine-like process ; this process is rather small. The surface 

 somewhat glossy and slightly granulate. The hairs are mostly broken 

 and lost, some left are short and truncate ; at the tip of the lateral 

 spine-like process there is ( when not broken) a hair, slightly clavate. 

 All sternites divided longitudinally ; but the division of the last 

 sternite is only partial ; the surface somewhat glossy and shagreened. 

 The hairs broken or lacking. 



Palps (when abdomen contracted) longer than, or (when abdomen 

 extended) as long as the body ; moderately slender. Coxa glossy 

 and slightly granulate ; the other joints, too, glossy and granulate, 

 but in addition there are on some of the joints bigger and pointed 

 granules ; for instance on trochanter, except on the under side, on 

 the femur above, but especially on the front side some very big ones, 

 also some smaller ones on the hind surface ; on the inner side of 

 tibia, too, some bigger granules. Fingers smooth. The clothing of 

 hairs is rather scattered, consisting of short, truncate, and a little 

 dentate hairs, curved forwards or nearly depressed ; on several of 

 the bigger granules the hairs are rather clavate. Trochanter with a 

 distinct stalk, somewhat longer than wide, oblong, in front and 

 behind moderately convex, above with a rather strong and rounded 

 protuberance. Femur with a distinct stalk, about 5 times as long 

 as wide at the tip, the inner side straight or slightly concave, behind 

 gradually widened from the stalk, the outer side slightly convex, 

 femur in all a little curved and slightly club-shaped, viz., gradually 

 increasing in width distally. Tibia with a short but distinct stalk, 

 decidedly club-shaped, distinctly shorter than femur, and at the 

 extremity about as wide as the femur, behind nearly straight, only 

 somewhat convex near the extremity, or slightly convex ; in front 

 nearly straight, a little sinuated near the tip. Hand with a very 

 short stalk, and the base obliquely rounded, oblong, as long as and 

 about li- times as wide as tibia, exteriorly slightly convex or some- 

 times nearly flat, interiorly somewhat more strongly convex, more or 

 less gradually passing into the fingers. Fingers about as long as the 

 hand or a little shorter, considerably curved, rather slender, with no 

 accessory teeth. 



Mandibles. The galea was broken in all specimens examined. 



Legs. -All joints glossy and more or less granulate. Coxa IV. 

 curved (as usual in the cancroides group), on the exterior corner pro- 

 vided with a brown, rounded, somewhat irregular spine-like process ; 

 this process, strictly speaking, is situated on the back of the joint, 



