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A'iukiIk of the South African Miineuiii 



PsEUDAGRioN FURCiGERUM (Eambuv, 1842). 



Of this species, Eambur's type in the de Selys' CoUeetiou at 

 Brussels is the ouly specimen known to the writer. It is testified to 

 as being that type by the following labels : furcigeritm (Si'lys' hand) 

 / Ramb. (id.) j furcigera (Eambur's hd.) / Cap. (id.). There are other 

 specimens associated with the type, but they belong to different 

 species. 



The specimen is in an adult male, with the coloiu's not in good 

 Condition ; but the appendages were found in sufficiently good con- 

 dition for a drawing, which will, it is hoped, facilitate the identification 



Fig. 22. — Pseuddfirionfiti-eiyermn, ^. Cape. Appendages, rig-ht side 

 and dorsal view. 



of the species. Occiput and labium yellowisli. Labruni, anteclypeus, 

 base of mandibles and genae olivaceous. Dorsum of head, prothorax 

 and thoi'ax black. Sides of prothorax narrowly' yellowish ; sides of 

 thorax yellowish or olivaceous, this colour beginning somewhere 

 between the humeral suture and the stigma, but nearer the latter ; the 

 exact limits not visible, as the thorax is partly destroyed. Legs black 

 on the lateral, light olivaceous on the medial service. Abdomen com- 

 paratively short and robust ; dorsum wholly black, sides yellowish 

 olivaceous. Appendages blackish (Text-fig. 22). The superiors are 

 similar in outline to those of j'rcietextatuin, but more robust, the 

 ventral branch shortei-, a strong sub-basal acute tooth projecting 

 from the lower edge of the dorsal branch. Origin of A* distinctlv 



