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depressed area extending toward the sides below and limited inferiorly 

 by a transverse, curved, sharp carina below which is the small médian 

 anterior lobe which bears two transverse, punctate grooves. 



Smicromyrme (Trogaspidia) tricolor (Klug). 



Somaliland : Sheikh Hussein, one female (A. Donaldson Smith. — 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia). 



This was correctly recorded by Fox {Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, 1896, p. 547) as Mutilla tricolor. 



Smicromyrme (Trogaspidia) alecto (F. Smith). 



In the maie of this species the anterior margin of the clypeus is 

 very strongly produced into a transverse, depressed plate, the anterior 

 edge of which is slightly concave, the antero-lateral angles sharp, the 

 sides slightly diverging above; the surface of this plate has a few 

 setigerous punctures and some transverse striolae; it is limited above 

 by a transverse carina which is extended obliquely outward above 

 the margin of the clypeus almost to the condyle of the mandibles. 

 The inferior swelling of the mesopleura: is coarsely reticulo-punctate; 

 the interstices just in front of the middle coxae forming an irregular 

 tubercle. Under face of the middle coxae with a longitudinal, impunc- 

 tate, shiny ridge. The ridge of the scutellum with a narrow, longi- 

 tudinal furrow bordered on each side by a carina. First sternite with 

 a longitudinal carina, emarginate anteriorly so as to make a blunt, 

 anterior and a longer, but also blunt, posterior lobe; the latter trun- 

 cate behind. Second sternite with an almost mammiform tubercle. 

 Eighth sternite truncate, its tips slightly membranous; its entire 

 surface, except the membranous portion, uniformly covered with 

 an only moderately dense brush of reddish brown bristles. 



Smicromyrme (Trogaspidia) bequaerti (Bischoff). 



Trogaspidia alecto subsp. bequaerti Bischoff, 1920, Arch. f. Natur- 

 gesch., LXXXVI, Abt. A, Heft 3, p. 412 (cf). (nec Smicromyrme 

 bequaerti Bischoff, 1921, op cit., Heft 4, p. 592). 



