[.jQ Franz Friedr. Kohl. 



7. Dolichurus ignitus Smith. 



Z)o//c/nir«5 7g^/2/fz<5 Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., pag. 304, Q i86g 



»Female. Length 374 ünes. Black and shining, the tip of the abdomen red. 

 »Head: black, shining, and strongly punctured, the vertex most sparingly so; the 

 clvpeus smooth and shining, its anterior margin truncate and rufo-piceous; the man- 

 dibles ferruginous, their extreme base and apex black. The pro- and mesothorax shin- 

 ing; the metathorax with the margins above carinate, with a central and tvvo lateral 

 carinae, between which is a series of transverse elevations irregulär and ill-defined; the 

 truncate portion is coarsely rugose, and the lateral maigins have a minute tooth beyond 

 the middle; the wings hyaline and iridescent; the outer margin of the tegulae piceous; 

 the tarsi, and the anterior tibiae obscurely ferruginous. Abdomen shining and im- 

 punctate; the margins of the two basal segments constricted; the two apical segments 

 ferruginous. 



»Hab.: Port Natal (J. F. Smith 's Collect.).« 



8. Dolichurus laevis Smith. 



Dolichurus laevis Smith, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XII (4. ser.), pag. 272, $ 1873 

 »Female. Length 4 lines. Black, smooth and shining, the abdomen brightest. 

 Head very closely and very delicately punctured, with a few irregulary intermixed larger 

 punctures; a tubercle in the middle of the face concave above, with its anterior margin 

 whitish; the palpi, base of the mandibles, and the clypeus yellowish white, the anterior 

 margin of the latter rounded; the antennae fulvous beneath. Thorax: the prothorax 

 flattened at the sides and deeply depressed in the middle above, forming on each side 

 an obtuse tubercle; the mesothorax with two deeply impressed longitudinal lines; the 

 metathorax rugose, with a horseshoe-shaped small enclosed smooth and shining space 

 at its base; this shape is again enclosed by a longer but similar-shaped space, which is 

 longitudinally strigose; the apex abruptly truncate, the iruncation sharply margined 

 above, finely rugulose, and thinly covered with white pubescence; wings subhyaline 

 and iridescent, the nervures black; the anterior tibiae, the tarsi, and also the inter- 

 mediate pair ferruginous. The abdomen smooth and shining; the apical segment, and 

 the margins of the other segments, narrowly rufo-piceous. 

 »Hab.: Brazil (Ega and St. Paulo). 



»The colouring of the legs differs in the two specimens, one being lighter than the 

 other, the extreme tips of the femora being ferruginous.« 



9. Dolichurus secundus Sauss. 



Dolichurus secundus Sauss., Hist. de Madagascar. Grandidier, Hym., Vol. 



pag. 450, 9 i8go — 1892 



Durch Herrn v. Saussure erhielt ich die Type zur Einsicht, so dass ich in der 

 Lage bin, eine zum Theile ergänzende Beschreibung zu geben, die Jenen zu Diensten 

 sein mag, denen das grosse kostbare Grandidier'sche Werk nicht erreichbar ist. 



Länge 9-5 Mm. 



Schwarz. Ausser der grauweissen Behaarung zeigen sich längere schwarze, starre 

 Borsten (»Macrochaeten«), und zwar vier in einer Horizontallinie auf dem Kopfschilde, 

 zwei auf der Stirne oben am Beginne der Protuberanz, je eine hart am inneren Netz- 

 augenrande ungefähr in gleicher Höhe mit dem Hinterrande des vorderen Nebenauges, 

 zwei auf dem Collare und vier auf dem Schildchen. 



