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lobe. Disk of pygidium with short and irregular, much interrupted, 

 vermiculate wrinkles, the gênerai direction of which tends to be 

 oblique. 



Habitat : Kenya Colony, one female, Tsavo River, 1913 (Dr. Bayer). 



Holotype : Congo Muséum, Tervueren. 



This species has its nearest ally in congoana Bischoff, from which 

 it, however, differs in the shape of the strise of the pygidial area 

 which are much more irregular and interrupted. In addition, congoana 

 has the thorax red. 



Smicromyrme (Smicromyrme) tolerabilis new name. 



Smicromyrme bequaerti Bischoff, 1923, Arch. f. Naturgcsch., 

 LXXXVI, Abt., A, Heft 4, p. 592 (nec Trogaspididia alecto subsp. 

 bequaerti Bischoff, 1920, op. cit., Heft 3, p. 412, cf. = Smicromyrme 

 [Trogaspidia] bequaerti [Bischoff] Bradley and Bequaert, p. 242 seq.) 



The maie type of this species lies before us and also a spécimen from 

 Sankisia collected by J. Bequaert and referred by Bischoff on p. 

 589 of his Monograph with a query to exaltata (Smith), as a form of 

 that species. As a matter of fact thèse two spécimens are identical in 

 every respect and must both be considered as tolerabilis. The différences 

 between tolerabilis and exaltata, to judge from Bischoff's description, 

 seem to be slight. He indicates that in exaltata only the first and sec- 

 ond abdominal segments are red and the third is entirely covered 

 with white pubescence; whereas in tolerabilis the third segment is red 

 and with only a weak apical pubescent band. The pronotum is cove- 

 red with white pubescence in both species. The clypeus in tolerabilis 

 is depressed and covered, except for a médian, longitudinal strip, with 

 white decumbent hairs. The setae on this médian strip are longer 

 and erect; this médian area is slightly raised above, depressed and 

 semi circularly emarginate at apex. 



Smicromyrme (Smicromyrme) rufopicta André, S.delagoensis 

 André and S. albistyla (Saussure). 



Bischoff umted thèse three forms as subspecies of atropos, but 

 they are abundantly distinct by structural characteristics one from 

 another, as indicated in the following key. We therefore believe that 

 they should be given spécifie rank. 



