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terally, but noticeably so dorsally, from the second segment. First 

 tergite with scattered, feeble punctures; second tergite with nume- 

 rous, weak punctures, much sparser and smaller medially; remaining 

 tergites punctulate. Pygidial segment with setigerous punctures, 

 except at apex where it is impunctate ; apex truncate. Last sternite 

 rounded, unarmed. 



Habitat : Belgian Congo, one maie, Kapiri, October 1912 (Mission 

 Leplae). 



Holotype : Congo Muséum, Tervueren. 



This species does not appear to be related to any of the described 

 forms. It is readliy separated from S. jankisiensis Bischoff, to which 

 it is not even nearly related. 



Squamulotilla denticollis Bischoff. 



Cameroon : Lolodorf, one maie (A. I, Good. — Carnegie Muséum). 

 The raised area of the clypeus ends anteriorly in two diverging 

 teeth which are not mentioned in Bischoff's description. 



Rhopalomutilla anguliceps (André). 



Female (undescribed). — Small, stocky species, with rather slender 

 abdomen. Color uniformly pale ferruginous; calcaria also pale ferru- 

 ginous. Naked, except for short and very sparse, erect and decum- 

 bent, white hairs and, on the abdomen, appressed, sparse, yellowish 

 pubescence. 



Length : 4,5 mm. 



Head quadrate, approximately as broad as long. Eyes small, oval 

 with large facets, removed by a little less than their length from the 

 base of the mandibles. Vertex with sparse, round punctures and broad, 

 polished interstices; its hind margin not at ail produced medially. 

 Antennae inserted rather close together; with a small, erect tubercle 

 between them. Scape short, curved. Flagellum strongly thickened; 

 the segments transverse, .the last one tapered and acute. Clypeus 

 very short, broad, impunctate; its anterior margin simple. Mandibles 



