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covered with shallow rough sculpturing, particularly the 3 apical segments, the entire margins of the segments 

 narrowly rufotestaceous. L. 3 Vi lines (= 7 mm). 



Sierra Leone (coli. Morgan). 



This species sometimes has a yellow transverse line on the scutellum, more or less frequently entirely 

 obsolete. 



Allodape pringlei Cam. 

 1905 Allodape pringlei Cameeon, $, in: Tr. S.-Afr. Phil. Soc, Vol. XV, p. 246. 



?. Black ; a large mushroom-shaped mark on the clypeus, dilated below. but not so widely as above, a 

 broad line on the pronotum, tubercles, a large mark on the scutellum, roundly narrowed lateraUy and the 

 tubercles, bright lemon-yellow ; the knees, tibiae and tarsi rufous, the fore femora with the apical third lemon- 

 yellow below. Scape of antennae rufous, flagellum fuscous below. Wings hyaline, stigma and nervures dark 

 fuscous. L. 5 — 6 mm. 



Smooth and shining, including the clypeus; labrum strongly punctured, base of metanotum aciculated, 

 broadly depressed in the middle ; mandibles black ; base and apex of abdomen blackish, the latter with scattered 

 white hairs; bind tibiae infuscated in the middle; both the recurrent nervures are received close to the cubitals 



Kapland — Kokstad; Brak Kloof. 



Allodape pulla Vach. 

 1903 Allodape pulla Vachal, $, in: Ann. Soc. ent. France, T. LXXII, p. 388. 



$. Nigra, tegulae et onchyia rufa, incisurae scariosae, pilis griseo-fuscis ; alae squalido-hyalinae, nervis 

 testaceis. L. 472 mm. 



1 ? de Chanchamayo (Afrique australe?) coli. Vachal. 



Südafrika oder Peru?! 



Allodape volini Vach. 

 1903 Allodape rolini Vachal, $, in: Ann. Soc. ent. France, T. LXXII, p. 388. 



?. Nigra, fere glabra; flava sunt: labrum, maculae clypei, callus, tegulae, alarum basis nervique, nodo 

 costali circum fuscato; rufescentia sunt: basis scapi, flagellum subtus, genua tarsique. Alae flavo-hyalinae nervo 

 recurrente 1 incidente; scopis aureo-fulvis. 



?. Le jaune du chaperon occupe le bout et la base plus ou moins reunis par une ligne, la base ä trois 

 pointes y compris la ligne mediane, en sorte que le tout simule un T plante dans une navette. L. 4V2 mm - 



1 ? de Borna Sundi (Rolin), Mus. Bruxelles. 



Kongo. 



Allodape rufogastra Lep. 



1825 Allodape rufogastra Lepeletier, ?, in : Encycl. method. Insect., T. X, p. 18. 

 1841 ,, „ Lepeletier, ?, in: Hist. nat. Insect., Hymen., T. II, p. 531. 



1841 „ humeralis Lepeletier, ?, in: Hist. nat. Insect., T. II, tab. 13, fig. 1. 



1854 „ rufogastra Smith, $ ?, in: Catal. Hymen. Brit. Mus., Vol. II, p. 228. 



„ 2. Caput nigrum, orbita oculorum, macula post oculos repanda clypeique linea perpendiculari ad labrum 



inferius attingente et apice supero dilatata, luteo-albidis ; antennae nigrae; thorax niger; scutellum postice albidum; 



abdomen rufo-ferrugineum, albido subpubescens ; pedes nigri, albido subvillosi; alae hyalinae. L. 5 lignes 



(= 1 1 y 4 mm) (? = wohl ca. 6 — 7 mm !). 



Caffraria (Mus. Paris)." 



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