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first flagellar joint, following growing barely longer and slightly thicker, the 

 fourth about one half longer than wide. Prothorax widest just before the 

 middle, sharply contracted anteriorly ; posteriorly narrowed, with sharply 

 dentate hind angles ; above very convex ; smooth, except at the posterior fifth 



Fig. 5. Parascleroderma nigra, new species ; female. 



where it is punctulate or shagreened. Mesonotum short, narrow, convex, 

 rugulose ; the mesopleurse visible from above as smooth convex crescentic 

 pieces embracing the anterior angles and the base of the sides of the mesono- 

 tum, the latter elongate, with parallel sides, finely longitudinally aciculate, 

 the lines curving toward the median line in front ; posterior slope rugulose. 

 Abdomen one fourth longer than the thorax, with a short, very slender petiole, 

 second segment longer than the following three together ; third to fifth 

 subequal ; following not clearly separated. Legs stout, the tibias all bare, not 

 spinulose. Middle and posterior femora much thickened, broadest at the 

 middle. 



Described from a specimen collected by Dr. Hans Brauns at Botha- 

 ville, Orange Free State, May 5, 1899. 



