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thorax however is immaculate ; the whole f the under side and 

 also the pygidium are very shiny black, the pectus and the abdomen 

 clothed with scanty, brief whitish hairs ; clypeus little sinuate ; 

 prothorax broadly but not closely conspicuously yet equally punc- 

 tate, slightly sinuate laterally before the obtusely rounded obtuse 

 angles ; elytra punctate almost like in H. franki ; legs, especially the 

 tarsi of the hind pairs, not very slender ; pygidium ocellate punctate. 



Length 10 mm. 



This species is perhaps only a chromatic variety of H. franki. 



Hab. Great Namaqualand (Kubub), Hereroland." 



Gen. TEICHOPLUS, Burm. 



Trichoplus ^pytus, Kolb., 

 Loc. cit., p. 123. 



" Closely allied to T. schaumi ; elongated, black, moderately shiny, 

 very briefly and sparsely and hardly conspicuously flavopilose ; head 

 moderately convex, squamiform, clypeus simple, depressed on each 

 side, emarginate in front, prothorax five times angular (not rounded), 

 closely punctate, ampliated, ampliate part more rounded, angulate 

 laterally, strongly attenuate behind, median part of the disk with a 

 large, broad, sub-orbicular excavation, marginate in front, simple 

 behind, and also with the anterior half strigillate in a half circle, the 

 posterior half flat and punctate ; scutellum striolate with curved 

 lines and indistinctly carinate in the centre ; elytra parallel with the 

 shoulders rather oblique, sinuate past the humeral part, obliquely 

 strigillate in the dorsal part, punctate towards the margin and the 

 apex, unicostate longitudinally, the costa reaching from the base to 

 nearly the apex and situated nearer to the suture than to the outer 

 margin ; legs simple, outer apical part of the tibia? ending in an 

 acuminate spine ; intersegmental abdominal transverse interval 

 between the propygidium and the pygidium clothed with a very 

 dense, golden and fuscous spongy pilosity ; mesosternum slightly 

 carinate between the coxae ; metasternum with a median cordiform 

 area very finely obliquely striolate and punctate, and also not 

 carinate laterally. 



Length 8J-9 mm. 



Hab. Namaqualand (Steinkopf)." 



Kolbe adds that this species was found in the interior of the clay- 

 nest (Termite mound) of the white ant, Hodotcrmcs viator, Latr. 

 The species of Hodotcrmcs, however, are sub-terranean and build no 

 mound. But they do occasional!} 7 take possession of the whole or 



