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Maceomia picta (St'lys, 1871). 



S. Afr. Mus. : 1 c^, Barkley West (xii . 1893, L. Poriuguev) ; 

 1 c? , Durban, Natal (iv . 1890, J. H. Bowker) ; 1 cJ , Barberton, 

 Transvaal; 1 9, Kranspoort (21 .xii . 1906). Coll. K. J. Morton: 



1 ,^ , Eshowe, Zululaud (4 . iii . 1908, Miss Fountaine) ; 1 9 , King 

 Williamstown, Cape Colony (3. i. 1908, ead.). Coll. E. B. Williamson : 



2 c?, 1 ? , Hilton Koad, Natal, 3800 ft. (23 . xii . 1909, G-. F. Leigh); 

 1 9. Princetown, Natal (20 . iii . 1909, id.). Mus. Hamburg: 1 J, 

 Bothaville, Orange Free State (8 . xi . 1898, Dr. H. Brauns). 



cJ . Median lo];>e of labium light oehreous with black longitudinal 

 line ; lateral lobes dull ferruginous, gradually turning to oehreous 

 medially. Labrum ferruginous with two basal yellow spots (confluent 

 to form a transverse baud in the specimen from Bothaville) ; ante- 

 clypeus olivaceous ; jJost-clypeus olivaceous iu anterior half, yellowish 

 in posterior half and at the sides (almost wholly yellowish iu the 

 specimen from Bothaville). Frons ferruginous anteriorly; dorsal 

 surface black at base, with an anterior bright yellow band that 

 descends along the eyes (the yellow band broadest in the specimen 

 from Bothaville) ; vertex black, with small double yellow spot at tip 

 to yellow with ))lack base. Occipital triangle yellow. Thorax dull 

 ferruginous with metallic blue reflections and light yellow bands : 

 rather broad ante-humeral stripes, slightly convergent dorsally, not 

 fully reaching to ante-alar sinus ; broad transverse band filling up the 

 ante-alar sinuses ; first lateral (metepisternal) band crossing the 

 stigma, rather conspicuously widened dorsally ; second lateral 

 (metepimeral) band filling somewhat less than posterior half of 

 metepimeron, also widened dorsally. 



Legs very long and robust, dark brown to blackish ; third femora 

 ferruginous, at least internally ; first femora light yellow internally 

 in basal two-thirds. Tibial laminae along the full length of third 

 pair, distal half of first pair, absent on second pair. 



Aljdominal segments 1-2 moderately inflated, 3 moderately con- 

 stricted, 4-6 cylindrical, 7-9 dilated in lateral and more in 

 dorsoventral dimension, the sides of 8 projecting in a triangular, 

 foliaceous extension ; 10 small, dorsum elevated in a conical tubercle 

 of aljout one-half the segment's height, very sharply pointed. 

 Segments 1-2 dark brown, 3-6 black, 7-10 dark ferruginous with 

 light yellow markings ; on segment 2 sinuate transverse baud, over 

 the auricles, posterior ventral incomjjlete narrow band from the 

 genital lobe to one-half the segment's height ; segment 3 complete 

 narrow basal ring and anteriorly bilobed median spot ; 4-6 basal 



