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pubescent. Distinct longitudinal median line, on the pronotum, and 

 two irregular impressions on the anterior half located behind the eyes; 

 two more irregular marks, situated towards the median line, also on the 

 anterior half. Scutellum brown, with gray pubescence, not quite as 

 long as the pronotum. Sides of thorax brown. Elytra for the most 

 part gray, brownish at the base; veins distinct brown; a black distal 

 spot behind the middle, situate at the anastomosis of two cellular areas; 

 apex of elytron almost transparent. Abdomen above dark brown to 

 black, the margin lighter; beneath brown with a tinge of red; legs light 

 brown, tips of tarsi black. Genitalia-female-last ventral segment 

 short, notched at the middle; plates longer than last ventral segment, 

 narrow; p^^gofers short and stout, with a distinct reddish tinge, very 

 pubescent; ovipositor black, much longer than the pygofers. 



Habitat: CafTraria (Stal), Cape Province (Stal), Transvaal 

 Province (Distant), Zoutpansberg (Kaessner) and Selati River 

 (Albany Museum). 



Cordia albilatera Stal. 



Cordiaalbilatera, Stal. Hem. Afr. IV. 79. (1866). Distant Ins. Transv. IX. 223. 



X. Tab. XXII. Fig. 9a. (1908-10). 

 Ptyelus albilatera Walk. List Horn. B. Mus. 723. (1851). 



Grayish stramineous, covered with a pale down. Length 



5.5. mm. Breadth 2 mm. 



Head brownish not pubescent, a little wider than the pronotum at 

 the eyes; vertex not quite as long as the pronotum. Ocelli closer to one 

 another than to the eyes; anterior margin of head angularly rounded. 

 E^^es long, wide, steel gray in color. Face a dark brown, darker than 

 the vertex, pubescent; clypeus lighter in color, lorae brown, cheeks 

 much lighter. Pronotum twice as wide as its length flat, finely ptmctate, 

 pubescent, and rugose on the posterior half; anterior margin well 

 rounded; faint irregular impressions on the anterior half, midway 

 between the median line and the lateral margins. Scutellum much 

 longer than broad, with a distinct whitish longitudinal ridge on the 

 middle; apex shar]3ly pointed. Elytra brownish, cinereous, very 

 pubescent, the veins showing as dark brown ridges; apices well rounded, 

 costal margin grayish; small black distal spot behind the middle situate 

 at the anastomosis of two cellular areas; punctulate. Abdomen above 

 black, the jDosterior edges of the segments and the lateral margins yel- 

 lowish brown; beneath light brownish yellow. Male genitalia — last 

 ventral segment rather short, slightly notched at iniddlc; plates longer 

 than the ultimate ventral segment; pygofers rather long, and narrow, 

 the tips blackened. Legs light yellowish brown, the tips of the spines 

 black. 



Habitat: Transvaal, Zoutpansberg (Kaessner), Natal 

 (Mansell Weale), Cape Colony (Stal), Grahamstown (Albany 

 Mus.). 



