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reddish apically ; malar space short but distinct ; clypeus strongly 
produced, snout-like, the upper part dull, with scattered punctures, 
the lower part more shining and irregularly malleate, with a strong 
median sulcus, the lower margin with a shining transverse groove ; 
front dull, glistening at sides; ocelli in a curved line; head and 
thorax with dull white hair, not dense on face (abundant and dense in 
H. schultzer), no dark hair on thoracic dorsum; mesothorax dull, 
closely and finely punctured ; scutellum dull, faintly bigibbous ; area 
of metathorax well defined, shining and with very strong plice ; 
posterior truncation sharply defined at sides; tegule piceous ; wings 
brownish-hyaline, stigma and nervures brown ; first recurrent nervure 
joining second transversocubital, or the apical corner of second sub- 
marginal cell ; marginal cell obtuse, almost truncate, at apex, with a 
little appendicular projection ; Jegs black, with pale hair, the small 
joints of the tarsi chestnut-red ; abdomen broad, the hind margins of 
the segments broadly depressed; surface shining, with extremely 
minute punctures; no hair-bands, but a patch of pale hair at each 
side of base of second and third segments; apical plate large and 
rounded ; sub-apical ventral spines, and a large median elevation on 
sixth ventral segment. 
?. Similar, but more robust; bases of abdominal segments 2 to 4 
with bands of pale greyish tomentum, that on 2 broad at sides but 
interrupted in middle, on 3 very broad and of uniform width, on 4 
often concealed ; flagellum short and entirely black ; discs of meso- 
thorax and scutellum with a good deal of black hair; hind tibiz with 
black hair on outer side ; hind basitarsi with pale ferruginous hair on 
inner side ; hind spur long, with nodular teeth, a large one sub-basally, 
and three very little ones beyond; caudal rima fringed with pure 
black hair. 
Durban, 26th May, 1918, two of each sex (C. N. Barker). A small 
female (anterior wing 6 mm.) from Pinetown, 26th November, 1916 
(H. W. Bell Marley), looks distinct, but has no distinctive characters 
except its size. It may stand as variety a. 
Ha tictus BOWKERI, sp. nov. 
3 (Type). Length 85-9 mm.; black, robust, looking like a 
female, with short (not at all moniliform) antenne, the flagellum 
obscurely reddish-brown beneath ; head and thorax with long thin 
greyish-white hair, not at all dense on face; head very large, some- 
what broader than long, face very broad; malar space linear ; 
