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white hair. Hair on the legs dense, white, on the 4 hind femora it is long. The 2. recurrent nervure is received 

 at a greater distance from the apex than is the i. from the base of the cellule. Scutellum is furrowed in the 

 middle; this furrow has oblique sides, the whole forming a large pyriform depression with the narrow end at 

 the base; the postscutellum has a narrower, clearly defined furrow in the centre. 



Characteristic of this species is the black furrowed scutellum. 



Kapland— Pearston. 



Allodape fiiscinei^is Cam. 

 1905 Allodape fuscinervis Cameron, ?, in: Tr. S.-Afr. Phil. Soc, Vol. XV, p. 247. 



?. Black, shining, abdominal segments narrowly banded with fuscous at the apex, antennal flagellum 

 brownish below; the mark on the clypeus dilated above and below, the central stem with irregulär edges; the 

 cross top part transverse above, the sides straight, the lower side shghtly dilated at the outer edge, the wholc 

 thinner than the central stem; the dilated apex larger, transverse below, laterally extending to the longitudinal 

 facial furrows, the upper part with the yellow suffused into fulvous; wings clear hyaline, Stigma and nervures 

 fuscous, the recurrent nervures received about the same distance from the cubitals; tegulae piceous. L. 5 mm. 



Cl)T)eus closely, minutely and distinctly punctured, most strongly at the apex; labrum yellowish, with 2 

 large punctures on either side; apex of mandibles broadly piceous, frontal furrow narrow, distinct. Metanotal 

 area opaque, strongly aciculated; tubercles pale yellow, fringed above with pale hair; hair on legs long and 

 silvery white, the apices of tarsi testaceous. 



Kapland — Brak Kloof . 



Allodape ictis Vach.? 

 1903 Allodape ictis Vachal, d'?, in: Ann. Soc. ent. France, T. LXXII, p. 387. 



9J? Nigra, flavo parce notata, funiculus subtus tarsorum apex et plus minus tegulae et angustissime 

 incisurae rufescentes. 



Caput subtilissime coriaceum ; mesonotum maxima parte nudum laeve, sed juxta scutellum ipsum tomento 

 subtili griseo-opaco, pronotum tomentosum, tempora pleurae et sternum albido-hispida. Alae hyalinae; nervis 

 piceis. Segmenta 1—3 nudiora sat lucida haud sculpta, 4—6 villosa et opacula; abdomen saepius graduatim ponc 

 latius. Pili sub tarsis rufescentes. 



?. Macula clypei sursum ampla, deorsum angustata et callus flavi. Scopa alba quam solito densior. 



cä'. Mandibulae, macula labri, clypeus totus, loborum lateralium pars infera, linea scapi, callus, tarsique 

 flavi. L. 4!/., — 6 mm. 



5 ? de Libreville VIII 97, 2 ? de Batah IX 97, 2 ? de Rio Mouny pr. 98, 2 ? de N'Doro X— XI 98, 

 2 d de Libreville et i de Batah VIII— IX 97 (BOUYSSOU), coli. Vachal; i ? de Boma Sundi (ROLIN), 

 Mus. Bruxelles. 



Kongo. 



Allodape inferrupta Vach.? 

 1903 Allodape interrupta Vachal, (??, in: Ann. Soc. ent. France, T. LXXII, p. 386. 



?c?.? Nigra; flava sunt: hnea lata interrupta in medio clypei, lobi laterales saepe ultra antennas cuspidem 

 filiformem orbitalem emittentes, linea orbitae posticac, linea transversa scutelli ; rufa sunt : mandibularum annulus, 

 labri apex, margo tenuis clypei, funiculum subtus, tegulurum niargo externus, striga basalis tibiae i, angulus 



