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verse, small, semi-circular or subtriangular in shape; its surface 

 roughened with punctulations and separated only by a feeble ridge 

 from the anterior lobe of the clypeus, which is transverse, impunctate, 

 shiny, and deeply depressed. 



The scutellum is uniformly convex, without a carina, but there is 

 a médian, flat, not entirely impunctate, polished strip of irregular 

 outline. The last sternite has two strong ridges, the apices of which 

 are turned toward each other; the very apex of the segment mem- 

 branous. 



Because of the entire absence of a keel on the scutellum we do not 

 find it possible to retain this specis in the subgenus Trogaspidia. 

 In its golden thoracic pubescence it closely resembles Smicromyrme 

 {Trogaspidia) variipennis (Bischoff), but the clypeus is of an entirely 

 différent type and it is probable that there is no real close affinity 

 between them. 



Smicromyrme (Glossotilla) leonina (Bischoff). 



Glossotilla leonina Bischoff, 1921, Arch. f. Naturgesch., LXXXVI, 

 Abt. A, Heft 4, p. 488 (c*). 



In addition to the maie types of Glossotilla leonina, G. kibomboana, 

 G. jokelensis and G. congoensis, the three last-named uniques, we hâve 

 before us spécimens which indicate an intergradation of the characters 

 upon which Bischoff founded thèse species. Thus while in the type 

 of leonina the abdomen is infuscated at the tip, we hâve other spéci- 

 mens in which it is entirely red. Of the other spécimens kibomboana 

 type has no pubescent spot en the second tergite, one spécimen has 

 a very small spot, others hâve moderate sized spots with increasingly 

 larger pubescent bands, and one spécimen has very large, sharply 

 marked spots and broad apical bands. The différence in the punctur- 

 ation of the second tergite does not appear to be more than individual 

 in its nature. The latéral processes of the ultimate sternite are of the 

 same peculiar type in ail of thèse forms and also in Glossotilla adelpha, 

 that is to say they consist of a basai, oblique or almost transverse, 

 flattened, subtriangular tubercle, approaching each other in the middle 

 and from there carried backward as longitudinal, subparallel carinje. 

 In one of our spécimens this posterior, longitudinal carina on one side 



