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Head densely rugosely punctured except the shining cly- 

 peus, not so broad as the pronotum, very little convex; the 

 eyes very large and convex emarginated in their npper and in- 

 teriör margin; antennse comparatively short, the second joint 

 of flagellum more than twice as long as the first one and a 

 little longer than the third one. Ocelli large and the inter- 

 val between the two posterior ones nearly as long as the 

 distance from the eyes. 



Thorax subrectangular, ronnded at the ends and a little 

 emarginated at the sides, densely punctnred with the meta- 

 notum reticulate. The front-angles of the pronotum rounded 

 and the posterior margin obtusely truncated. The furrows 

 on the mesonotum distinct but effaced in front, scutellum very 

 conical with a short fine longitudinal carina in the middle 

 at the apex. Tegulse brilliant smoth impunctate. Metano- 

 tum rounded behind transversally flat. 



Abdomen sessil, the first segment a little broader than 

 long finely punctured above and with a fine longitudinal 

 carina below. The second segment finely punctured but with 

 the disk shining impunctate. The other segments all över 

 with fine and spread points except the last one that is densely 

 and rugosely punctured. 



Forewings with the radial cell a little obliquely trunca- 

 ted ; the second recurrent nervure is . attached to the third 

 cubital cell a little behind the middle. 



Length of the body 20 mm. 



Exp. of the wings 38 mm. 



A single male from the Cameroons. 



Fam. Tliynnidöe. 



Aeluroides n. g. 



Nearly related to the South -American genus Aelurus Klug. 1 

 of the group Rhagigastrinee (conf. Ashmead, Canad. Entomol. 

 1903). From Aelurus the new genus differs principally by 

 having 3-jointed maxillary and labial palpi by the female 

 (conf. the fig.). Ålas the male is wanting. The labial palpi 



1 Klug. tiber die Insectenfamilie Heterogyna Latr. und die Gattung Thyu- 

 nus F. insbesondere (Abh. d. Königl. Akad. d. Wiss. zu Berlin 1840). 



