from the Transvaal. 349 



At any rate, we have here the same construction of the head 

 as in Antipus — that is, there is no distinct epistome and the 

 mandibles are robust and angular. The present Sj)ecie3 

 resembles almost entirely the type of the genus, A. maxillosay 

 Lac, but is much smaller ; the epistome is of entirely difFerent 

 shape and the mandibles are much less robust ; the female 

 does not differ from the male except in the mandibles, which 

 are of normal size and much smaller. 



Antipus rufus^ De Geer. Barberton and Pretoria. 



Pe-ploptera cylindriformis, Lac. Pretoria, Rustenburg. 



Another variety in which the thorax has a longitudinal 

 central black stripe was obtained by Mr. Distant ; this variety 

 is not mentioned by Lacordaire, although the insect is one of 

 the most variable of the group. 



Peploptera dorsata, Lac. Pretoria. 

 PepJoptera trilineata, Lac. Pretoria. 



Gynandrophthalma abdommalis, sp. n. 



Black, the antenna, the tibise and tarsi, and the last abdo- 

 minal segment fulvous ; tiiorax impunctate, fulvous ; elytra 

 finely and semiregularly punctured, flavous, the suture 

 narrowly and a broader longitudinal band at the middle of the 

 disk, abbreviated before the apex, black. 



Length 7-8 millim. 



Subcylindrical and parallel; the head black, rather closely 

 punctured at the vertex, with a central longitudinal groove 

 and a deeper fovea at the middle ; clypeus more sparingly 

 punctured, black, shining, its anterior margin subtriangularly 

 emarginate ; labrum black, margined with fulvous ; palpi and 

 antennaj fulvous, the latter very short, the basal joint piceous 

 above, the fifth and following joints transversely widened ; 

 thorax twice as broad as long, the sides rather strongly 

 rounded near the base, the basal margin but slightly pro- 

 duced at the middle, the disk impunctate or with a few minute 

 punctures here and there, reddish fulvous ; scutellum black, 

 its apex truncate ; elytra not lobed at the base laterally, 

 flavous, finely punctured in very irregular rows, the suture 

 narrowly black, the sides with another broader black stripe, 

 extending from the middle of the base nearly to the apex : 

 underside black, finely pubescent, the last abdominal segment 



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