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Nothylaeus gigas (Friese). 



P)-osopis gigas Friese. Arcliiv. f. Xatnri:e<. 77:1-52. 9 



Eritraea 1911. 

 To these may be added : 



Nothylaeus Peringueyi n. sp. 



9 Black, mandibles, labruni. cl\'peus, suffusion on lower part of supra- 

 clypeal area, scape, flagellum beneath and anterior tibiae, knees and 

 femora within ferruginous ; lateral face marks acuminate and extending 

 above the middle of the eyes and a dot on the tegulae yellow, legs 

 piceous brown. 



Collar, margin of tul)ercles and interrupted bands on the posterior 

 margins of tergites i and 2 with wliite pubescence. 



Clypeus, with the surface uneven, with rather fine shallow punctures 

 distant from each other above twice their diameter, vcrte.x more coarsely 

 and closely and confluently punctate ; mesonotum similar, the punctures 

 more discrete, particularly discally ; scutellum similar to tlie disc of the 

 mesonotum, the surface shining; mesopleura more finely and closely 

 punctured ; sides of propodetmi very finely longitudinally rugulose ; above, 

 the basal area is radiately rugulose and there is an inner semicircular 

 enclosure bounded by a fine carina ; posterior face of propodeum hexago- 

 nal, angulate laterally, radiately rugulose or striolate with the petiole 

 as a center, surface like that of the sides of the propodeum, somewhat 

 obscured by a microscopic appressed cinereous pubescence. 



Abdominal tergites microscopically tranversely lineolate, impunctate, 

 I, 2, and 3 somewhat contracted apically; sternites 2 and 3 with fine 

 scattered punctures. 



Wings hyaline, the ncrvures lilackish. first recurrent received near 

 apex of first cubital cell, the second interstitial. 



Length 5 mm. Length of wing 4.5 nmi. 



Described from a singie ? collected at Oloke Meji, Ibadan, 

 Nigeria, during August or September 1914 (J. C Bridwell). 



Type in the author's collection. 



The species is named in appreciation of the opportunity of 

 working for a time at the South African Museum and the 

 kindly assistance afforded me by the director. Dr. L. Peringuey, 

 whose comprehensive studies of South African entomology 

 have nuule known many and interesting Coleoptera and Hynien- 

 optera of South Africa and tlirown much light on the biogeog- 

 raphy of Africa, and whose administration has rendered the 

 South African Museum one of the best of provincial museums. 



