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plus superficiellement sur les flancs, avec les mesopleures simplement 
ponctuees et luisantes; le metathorax porte un onglet scutellaire 
petit mais bien distinet. Abdomen nettement petiole; premier segment 
nodiforme, grossierement rugueux-ponctue en dessus, charge en dessous 
d’un petit tubercule dentiforme, second segment longitudinalement 
rugueux-ponctue en dessus; irregulierement ponctu& en dessous; 
, dernier segment muni d’une aire pygidiale plane, longitudinalement 
et irregulierement rugueuse. Tibias intermediaires et posterieurs avec 
deux rangees d’epines noires sur leur tranche externe. 
Cette espece se rapproche beaucoup, sous le rapport de la forme, 
de la coloration de ses teguments et de celle de la vestiture de son 
abdomen, de la rubroaureas Sich. Rad. qui provient @galement de 
Madagascar, mais elle s’en ecarte completement par le nombre et la 
‘ disposition des taches du second segment abdominal.‘ 
b. Männchen. 
appias Peringuey in Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 1898, p. 90. 
„Black, densely covered with a greyish villosity; head nearly as 
broad as the prothorax, diagonally attenuate behind the eyes which are 
large, not emarginate; prothorax, mesothorax, and scutellum roughly 
shagreened, metathorax short, very declivous, nearly twice as broad as 
long with the basal part of the declivity rounded, red, and covered 
with broad, deep punctures, broader and with the intervalls raised in 
the median part, prothorax with a broad band of dense whitish hairs 
covering nearly the whole of the surface; first abdominal segment 
celosely punctured, the punctures deeper and subelongate in the anterior 
part, while the posterior part and also the sides are deeply aciculate; 
ventral ridge of the first abdominal segment sharp, truncate and 
subaculeate at apex; tibiäde without spines; wings totally infuscate. 
Length: 10,5—14 mm. 
Hab. Transvaal (Klerksdorp), Cap Colony (Port Elizabeth), Natal 
Estcourt). “ 
deiopeia Pöringuey in Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 1899, p. 85. 
‚Black, with a dense greyish villosity and a short pubescence of 
the same colour on the head and thorax; antennae and legs subrufes- 
cent; head very closely punctured, narrowed diagonally from behind 
the eyes, which are large’and not emarginate; thorax deeply and irre- 
gularly punctured, the punctures broader and deeper on the meta- 
thorax, which is very declivous behind, one-fourth broader than long, 
and rounded laterally at the basal part of the declivity; abdomen 
with a dark cyaneous tinge, first segment covered with closely set, 
broad punctures, second segment very closely and finely punctu:ed, 
the punctures hardly elongate and with not raised intervalls, the silky 
white band on the third segment a little wider than that of the second; 
ventral carina of the first segment hardly truncate at apex, second one 
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