96 Annals of the South African Museum. 



L. (Lobopelta) Havilandi, Forel. 

 Eev. Suisse Zool., vol. 9, p. 332, g , 1901. 

 " £ . 6-5 mm. Mandibles narrow, slightly broader towards the 

 apex, the apical margin forming a cutting, edentate edge, concave, 

 curving into the inner margin, smooth and punctured. Head sub- 

 rectangular, hardly longer than wide, wider in front than- behind, 

 with posterior margin and angles rounded ; the posterior margin is 

 confluent with the straight articular margin. Eyes large and flat 

 and situated a little in front of the middle of the sides. Lobe of 

 clypeus triangular, short, obtuse and rounded at its median point, 

 margined in front along its whole length by a whitish edge. The 

 scape reaches beyond the occiput by about one-quarter of its own 

 length. Thoracic sutures distinct. Dorsum of epinotum as long as 

 the pro- and mesonotum together. A narrow but deep sulcus 

 between the meso- and epinotum. Node of petiole sub-cubic, 

 slightly longer than wide, wider behind, posterior face vertically 

 truncate and at least one and a half times as high as the anterior 

 face, which is also truncate. Abdomen elongate, constriction 

 between 1st and 2nd segments distinct. The 1st segment is not 

 wider, perhaps even narrower than the 2nd. Head densely and 

 strongly punctured, almost dull, except the clypeus which is longi- 

 tudinally striate. Thorax and node fairly dull, very irregularly and 

 rather coarsely rugose, finely reticulate between the rugosities. 

 Abdomen smooth, with a few coarse irregular punctures, especially 

 on the apical margin of the 1st segment. Legs and scapes finely 

 punctured. Anterior and posterior faces of the node and anterior 

 face of the 1st abdominal segment smooth and shining. Pilosity 

 erect, yellow and fairly dense all over, somewhat oblique, longer on 

 the abdomen, short and scanty on the legs. Pubescence scanty on 

 the body, abundant on the legs. Black ; mandibles, antennae, legs 

 and apex of abdomen reddish brown. Natal. (Haviland.)" 



L. (Lobopelta) Pekingueti, Forel. 



(L. Havilandi, race Peringiieyi), Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. Beiheft, 

 p. 210, $, 1913. 



Similar in general features to L. Havilandi, but smaller and with 

 entirely different sculpturation and differently shaped head and 

 mandibles. Dr. Forel treats it as a race of Havilandi, but in view 

 of the marked differences, I have adopted the suggestion made in his 

 description that it should perhaps be treated as a distinct species. 



£ . 6 mm. Black, mandibles, legs, flagellum and apex of 



