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Head seen from above with its latéral margins strongly convergent 

 posteriorly, rounded into the posterior margin which is rather pro- 

 longed medially. Ocelli in an equilateral triangle, the base of which 

 is on the postocular line. Occiput coarsely, but not deeply rugose- 

 punctate, reticulate posteriorly; front obsoletely punctate. Antennal 

 tubercles prominent. Upper margin of the antennal foveae weakly 

 carinate. Upper portion of clypeus sloping on either side from a 

 médian, longitudinal ridge which is carried upward between the 

 antenna;. Anterior margin of clypeus slightly produced and emarginate 

 medially. Mandibles slender,without an external tooth. Second segment 

 of flagellum longer than wide, about two-thirds the length of the 

 third. Eyes distinctly but not deeply emarginate. Dorsum coarsely 

 reticulo-punctate. Anterior margin and humerai angles of prothorax 

 entirely rounded. Parapsidal furrows indistinctly marked posteriorly, 

 absent in front. Tegulae elongate, recurved, their surface with scat- 

 tered, setigerous punctures. Scutellum produced into a blunt cône; 

 its surface reticulate; its apex an impunctate tubercle. Mesopleurae 

 with a médian, circular dépression, without tubercle in front of the 

 middle coxae. Propodeum coarsely reticulate; basai médian area 

 somewhat elongate. Propodeum very oblique, the dorsal surface 

 merging very gradually into the posterior surface. Seen from above 

 the first segment is widened uniformly to its apex, at an angle less 

 than that made by the basai sides of the second segment; maximum 

 width of the latter greatly in excess of that of the first. From the side 

 the first segment widens in a graduai curve to the apex where it is 

 not constricted; the carina of its sternite with a médian notch cutting 

 off a blunt tooth behind and a truncate lobe in front. Second sternite 

 unarmed. Last sternite with a triangular, impunctate, basai area; 

 the remaining and greater part of its surface uniformly punctate. 

 Last tergite with a médian, impunctate, flat strip. 



Habitat : Belgian Congo, one maie, Lesse, August 24, 1914 (J. 

 Bequaert). 



Holotype : Congo Muséum, Tervueren. 



To judge from the description, this species appears to be some- 

 what similar to conigera André and still more so to rotundipyga 

 Strand. In conigera, however, the second sternite has a distinct Ion- 



