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moderately gibbous, and half as long as the mesonotum. Dorsum 

 of epinotum as wide as long, and as long as scutellum and meta- 

 notum together, the declivity very smooth and shining. Node of 

 petiole like that of the £ , but not so thick. Abdomen ovate, 1st 

 segment as long as the 2nd, all the segments much wider than long. 

 Knysna. (Dr. H. Brauns.) (S.A.M., R.M., G.A. colls.) 



P. Eagusae, Emery, race bulawayensis, Forel. 



Emery, II Natural Sicil., 1895. Emery, Mem. Accad. Sc. Bologna 

 (5), vol. v., pp. 292, 297, 1895. Forel, Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 

 Beiheft, p. 203, $ , 1913. 



$ . 2-4-2-8 mm. Beddish yellow. Antennae and body covered 

 with a whitish pubescence, somewhat sparse on the head and 

 thorax. Head and thorax dull, microscopically punctured. Head 

 a little wider behind than in front, half as long again as wide, sides 

 feebly convex or almost parallel-sided, posterior margin moderately 

 concave, posterior angles rounded. Eyes absent. Mandibles trian- 

 gular, masticatory margin with about 6 or 7 small teeth. Clypeus 

 short, anterior margin obtusely angular in the middle. Frontal 

 carinae broad and flat. Scape of antenna widened towards the 

 apex, not reaching back as far as the occipital margin ; the whole 

 antenna reaches back as far as the base of the epinotum ; flagellum 

 clavate, 1st joint a little longer than wide, and as long as the three 

 following joints taken together, 2nd-10th joints wider than long, 

 last joint a little longer than the two preceding joints together and 

 twice as long as wide. Thorax rather flat dorsally ; pro-mesonotal 

 suture distinct, meso-metanotal obsolete. Pronotum as wide as 

 long, but narrower than the head, anterior margin and sides convex. 

 Meso- and epinotum narrower than, and, taken together, one- 

 quarter longer than the pronotum ; declivity of the epinotum 

 oblique, smooth and shining. Node of petiole seen from above 

 sub-quadrate, the sides slightly convex, narrower in front than 

 behind, a little wider than long, and not including the ventral 

 lamella, only a trifle higher than thick ; seen in profile, convex 

 above from side to side, anterior and posterior faces vertically 

 truncate ; ventral lamella produced into a long keel, slightly nicked 

 in the middle. Abdomen elongate, as long as thorax and petiole 

 together. First segment as long as, or a little longer than wide, 

 2nd segment one-quarter longer than wide and longer than the 

 1st ; the anterior face of the latter is vertically truncate, the brow 

 rounded. 



Bulawayo. (G.A. coll.) 



