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vals of which are carinate and longitudinal, on the laterally 

 ampliate subaculate mesonotum these carinae are sharper, straighter 

 from the base to the apex of the declivity ; basal segment covered 

 with ovate foveae, second with strong longitudinal carinae reaching 

 from apex to base, third carinate from the apex to the median part 

 only and the posterior half is smooth, third and fourth sparsely 

 punctate, pygidial area closely striolate. 



Length 13| mm. 



Hab. Cape Town, L. Peringuey. 



This species differs from A. climene, Per. (? globularia, Fabr.) in 

 the strongly carinate meso-metanotum ; in A. climene the second 

 abdominal segment is strigillate, whereas it is carinate in A. procera t 

 in which species the carinae do not reach further than half the 

 length of the third segment, the posterior half being smooth, whereas 

 it is strigillate from apex to base in A. climene. 



APTEROGYNA FODINAE, sp. n. 



$ . Black, moderately shining, the antennae, thorax, basal joint of 

 abdomen ferruginous red, legs sub-rufescent, tarsi sub-flavescent, 

 spurs white. Head rounded with eyes moderately large, clothed 

 with dense erect sub-flavescent hairs, deeply and irregularly punc- 

 tate. Thorax very rugose, pronoturn sub-trapezoidal, the transverse 

 suture dividing it from the meso-metanotum deep, very con- 

 spicuous, meso-metanotum ampliated laterally in the centre in a 

 sub-hexagonal shape, very convex, almost gibbose, the whole dorsal 

 part is deeply pitted and the intervals raised in seriate longitudinal 

 carinae less well denned in the anterior than in the posterior part, 

 the surface and the sides are covered with long, greyish hairs ; the 

 abdomen is clothed with similar hairs, and the apical part of the first 

 four segments has a narrow band of appressed white hairs, this 

 band being better defined on the second and third, the first segment 

 is deeply foveate, the second and third are conspicuously striolate, 

 the striolae more raised on the second than on the third, but they 

 reach on both from base to apex, upper part of pygidium closely 

 striate for all the length ; tibiae not spinose, legs briefly pilose. 



Length 5 mm. 



Hab. Northern Ehodesia (Broken Hill). 



APTEROGYNA BEMBESIA, n. sp, 



5 . Antennae, head with the exception of the frons which is 

 fuscous, thorax, first abdominal segment, most of the dorsal part of 



