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metapleurae irregularly striated. First abdominal segment sparsely 

 and strongly, the second and third weakly punctured ; pygidium 

 smooth, the apical half black and clearly narrowed, its apex bluntly 

 rounded ; epipygium with the apical third incised ; this, with the 

 sides, are thickly covered with long stiff fulvous hair. 



The male is coloured like the female except that the clypeus, face, 

 and inner eye orbits to near the ocelli are yellow; that the abdominal 

 segments are only slightly marked with black and that the apical 

 joints of the antennae are black. Apex of clypeus shortly bluntly 

 tridentate, the middle tooth the shorter ; the sides fringed with 

 fulvous, stiff pubescence. Pygidium of equal width throughout, 

 finely aciculated, sparsely punctured, its apex transverse, as is also 

 the apex of epipygium. 



Ceeceris africana, sp. now 



Black, the abdomen from near the apex of the first segment, the 

 legs except the hind coxae, antennae, clypeus, cheeks, the inner orbits 

 from shortly above the antennae broadly, the mark obliquely 

 narrowed above, the lower two-thirds of the outer orbits, the line 

 dilated obliquely backwards above, and the tegulae rufous ; the 

 mandibles yellowish, black at the apex ; wings hyaline, the apex 

 from the end of the radius and of the third transverse cubital nervure 

 smoky ; the nervures and stigma fulvous. 2 • 



Length 14 mm. 



Cape Colony, Dunbrody. 



Metanotal area closely and strongly punctured, more closely and 

 not quite so strongly as the rest of the segment. Head and thorax 

 thickly covered with long white pubescence. Third joint of antennae 

 shorter than the scape and about one-fourth longer than the follow- 

 ing. Hinder ocelli separated from each other by a slightly, but 

 distinctly, less distance than they are from the eyes. Clypeus 

 roundly convex, coarsely aciculated, the apical half with longish, 

 clearly separated punctures ; its apex in the middle projecting 

 broadly, rounded. Thorax closely and strongly punctured, the 

 scutellum more shining and less closely punctured. First abdominal 

 segment thickly covered with long white hair, black, the apex 

 in the middle narrowly, the sides more broadly rufous ; it is 

 strongly, the other segments more closely and less strongly punc- 

 tured. Pygidium coarsely, irregularly wrinkled, except at the 

 apex ; it is slightly narrowed towards the base ; apex of epipygium 

 with an incision which is slightly longer than it is wide at the 

 apex. 



