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white hair. Hair on the legs dense, white, on the 4 hind femora it is long. The 2. recurrent nervure is received 

 at a greater distance from the apex than is the 1. from the base of the cellule. Scutellum is furrowed in the 

 middle; this furrow has oblique sides, the whole forming a large pyriform depression with the narrow end at 

 the base; the postscutellum has a narrower, clearly defined furrow in the centre. 



Characteristic of this species is the black furrowed scutellum. 



Kapland — Pearston. 



Allodape fuscinervis Cam. 

 1905 Allodape fuscinervis Cameron, $, in: Tr. S.-Afr. Phil. Soc, Vol. XV, p. 247. 



$. Black, shining, abdominal segments narrowly banded with fuscous at the apex, antennal flagellum 

 brownish below; the mark on the clypeus dilated above and below, the central stem with irregulär edges; the 

 cross top part transverse above, the sides straight, the lower side slightly dilated at the outer edge, the whole 

 thinner than the central stem; the dilated apex larger, transverse below, laterally extending to the longitudinal 

 facial furrows, the upper part with the yellow suffused into fulvous; wings clear hyaline, stigma and nervures 

 fuscous, the recurrent nervures received about the same distance from the cubitals; tegulae piceous. L. 5 mm. 



Clypeus closely, minutely and distinctly punctured, most strongly at the apex; labrum yellowish, with 2 

 large punctures on either side; apex of mandibles broadly piceous, frontal furrow narrow, distinct. Metanotal 

 area opaque, strongly aciculated; tubercles pale yellow, fringed above with pale hair; hair on legs long and 

 silvery white, the apices of tarsi testaceous. 



Kapland — Brak Kloof . 



Allodape ictis Vach.? 

 1903 Allodape ictis Vachal, (5$, in: Ann. Soc. ent. Prance, T. LXXII, p. 387. 



5 c?? Nigra, flavo parce notata, funiculus subtus tarsorum apex et plus minus tegulae et angustissime 

 incisurae rufescentes. 



Caput subtilissime coriaceum ; mesonotum maxima parte nudum laeve, sed juxta scutellum ipsum tomento 

 subtili griseo-opaco, pronotum tomentosum, tempora pleurae et sternum albido-hispida. Alae hyalinae; nervis 

 piceis. Segmenta 1 — 3 nudiora sat lucida haud sculpta, 4 — 6 villosa et opacula; abdomen saepius graduatim pone 

 latius. Pili sub tarsis rufescentes. 



?. Macula clypei sursum ampla, deorsum angustata et callus flavi. Scopa alba quam solito densior. 



6- Mandibulae, macula labri, clypeus totus, loborum lateralium pars infera, linea scapi, callus, tarsique 

 flavi. L. 4V2 — 6 mm. 



5 $ de Libreville VIII 97, 2 ? de Batah IX 97, 2 ? de Rio Mouny pr. 98, 2 $ de N'Doro X— XI 98, 

 2 d de Libreville et 1 de Batah VIII— IX 97 (Botjyssou), coli. Vachal; i $ de Borna Sundi (Rolin), 

 Mus. Bruxelles. 



Kongo. 



Allodape interrupta Vach.? 

 1903 Allodape interrupta Vachal, <??, in: Ann. Soc. ent. Prance, T. LXXII, p. 386. 



? <?. ? Nigra ; flava sunt : linea lata interrupta in medio clypei, lobi laterales saepe ultra antennas cuspidem 

 filiformem orbitalem emittentes, linea orbitae posticae, linea transversa scutelli ; rufa sunt : mandibularum annulus, 

 labri apex, margo tenuis clypei, funiculum subtus, tegularum margo externus, striga basalis tibiae 1, angulus 



