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specimen, the large facets occupy the upper part, reaching the apex 

 of the frontal triangle and attaining the vertex. 



CORIZONEUEA ALBIFACIES, 11. Sp. 



Type (female) from Cape Colony (Hex Eiver) ; and another female 

 from Triangle (L. Peringuey). 



A small blackish species, with a short stout abdomen marked with 

 grey tomentose bands. Antennae and palpi blackish, forehead very 

 wide. Face covered with long white hairs. Legs red. Length 

 13 mm., proboscis 5 ram. Face covered with grey tomenturn and 

 with long white hairs, beard thick and white. Palpi small, the 

 first as long as the second joint which is narrow and conical, 

 reddish yellow in colour, dusky at tips, with some grey tomentum, 

 pubescence white below, black at apices. Proboscis stout, pointing 

 downward. Antennae black, the first two joints yellowish red, the 

 first with two or three long yellow hairs on its upper borders, both 

 with shorter black hairs. Forehead quite a third the width of 

 head, about H mm. wide at vertex where it becomes narrower, 

 covered with a rather yellowish tomentum becoming duskier near 

 ocelli, the pubescence very noticeable, consisting of white hairs 

 anteriorly above and around the antennae, posteriorly of short erect 

 black hairs, with white hairs on back of head and around eyes. 

 Tlwrax black covered with thick fulvous tomentum and with pale 

 fulvous pubescence, white tufts of hair are apparent above and 

 below the root of wings, and a few white hairs are intermixed with 

 the fulvous pubescence on dorsum. Scutellum same as thorax. 

 Abdomen stout, convex above and below, the ground colour black, 

 the first four segments with greyish white tomentose bands on 

 their posterior borders, on the first narrow in centre becoming 

 broad at the sides, leaving no black colour visible, but a reddish 

 ground colour appears beneath it, the second band almost equal in 

 width taking up more than the width of the segment, the third 

 band narrower, inclined to be reddish in colour (owing to denuda- 

 tion only), the fourth slightly broader than the third band, the fifth 

 and sixth bands narrow, the last segment has no band, pubescence 

 on dorsum not very noticeable, chiefly white on the pale bands and 

 elsewhere black, underside similar, but the second segment is wholly 

 covered with greyish white tomeutum, the pubescence is thicker 

 and almost wholly white and yellow. Legs pale reddish, duskier at 

 apices, the pubescence black, white on the femora. Wings hyaline, 

 the veins shaded pale brown, most noticeable on the transverse 



