Notes on SoittJi African Nntillidae. 351 



GEN. APTEROGYNA, Latr. 



APTEROOYNA RHODESIA, sp. n. 



5 . Head, antennae, thorax, legs, and first abdominal segment 

 ferruginous red, the other abdominal segments black. Head 

 rounded, eyes small, vertex distinctly striate in the middle, fossulate 

 laterally, beset with whitish, slightly flavescent, not very dense, but 

 long rigid setae. Antennal tubercles very prominent. Pronotum 

 and mesonotum deeply foveate, metanotum also foveate but with 

 distinct longitudinal carinae on the dorsal part, meso-rnetanotum 

 little ampliate laterally, abdomen slightly depressed, first segment 

 deeply foveolate, clothed with long silvery hair-like bristles and a 

 little white pubescence at the junction with the second, second 

 segment twice as broad as long, deeply foveolate but with the whole 

 dorsal part carinulate longitudinally and having a narrow border 

 of dense white hairs, third abdominal segments hardly wider than 

 the second, carinulate from base to apex with the intervals between 

 the carinae fossulate and fringed with a white pubescence like the 

 second and the fourth, pygidiurn conspicuously striolate and with 

 the lateral edges serrate, legs densely hairy, spurs whitish. 



Length 7 mm. 



Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Plumtree), Father J. O'Neil. 



Allied to A. climene, P6r. (? globularia, Fabr.), but distinguished 

 apart from the colour of the head and legs by the less arupliated 

 meso-metanotum. 



$ . Totally black, with the first abdominal segment red. Head 

 small, deeply foveate, clothed like the prothorax with a dense 

 .greyish white pubescence, eyes only moderately large, antennae 

 glabrous, except the first joint, slightly brownish, the joints some- 

 what arcuate outwardly ; thorax closely, deeply and equally 

 foveolate ; pronotum with two distinct furrows, scutellum hardly 

 swollen and therefore very little convex, metanotum slanting ; wings 

 hyaline but with a broad, very pale flavescent band running parallel 

 with the fore margin from a short distance of the nervures to some- 

 what short of the apex, the nervures conspicuously infuscate ; all 

 the abdominal segments closely pitted, the intervals on the third 

 segment so disposed as to appear striolate, the apical part of the 

 second segment is hardly fimbriate with white hairs which form 

 however a narrow band at the apex of the third to sixth ; this part 

 of the segments is densely greyish hairy ; pygidium deeply pitted, 

 terminal spine red, under part of abdomen as hairy as the upper ; 

 tarsi clothed with silvery hairs, spurs white. 



