356 Annals of the South African Museum, 



equal, pitted punctures separated by an interval nearly equal to their 

 diameter, mandibles simple, briefly but somewhat densely hairy, 

 scape of antennae shiny, second joint less than half the length of the 

 third ; the first two dorsal segments of the prothorax slightly longer 

 than the third, pronotum longer than broad, dorsal part moderately 

 ampliate at apex, covered with closely set fossulate punctures 

 replaced laterally on the anterior part by sub-vertical striae, 

 mesonotum similarly punctured in the anterior part but less deeply 

 in the scutellary region, and with the sides plainly striate vertically, 

 metanotum more finely punctate on the whole dorsal part and striate 

 only on the sides, all three parts briefly and sparsely setulose, the 

 setae greyish and black; abdomen smooth, shiny, concolorous, but 

 with the apical joint sub-rufescent, clothed with dense sub-fulvous 

 hairs, black on the petiole ; legs moderately slender, shiny, clothed 

 with short, whitish rigid setae, the intermediate and hind ones with 

 a row of conspicuous spines on the upper side, spurs white. 



Length 9 mm. 



Hal>. Basutoland (Maseru), Dec. 



