224 Annals of the Sotdli African Museum. 



Brownish ; scape, legs, clypeus and mandibles yellowish brown. First 

 half of the flagellum yellowish red." 

 Gawieb, Damaraland. (Schultze.) 



Eace termitarium, Forel. 

 Loc. cit., p. 17, £, 2 . 



" ^ • 2 - 3-2 - 5 mm. Reddish yellow, abdomen light brown. In 

 sculpture and gloss it is intermediate between salamonis, i. sp., and the 

 var. subnitidum, Em. ; it is less shining and more sharply reticulate 

 than the latter. Head elongate as in herero, the indentation of the 

 thorax feeble, as in damarense • nodes as in salamonis, i. sp., but a little 

 smaller and the 2nd node somewhat shorter. Pilosity as in the type 

 species. 



2 . 5"5 mm. Head rectangular, not wider or hardly wider behind 

 than in front, the sides almost straight, a little wider than the thorax. 

 Brown ; mandibles, legs and antennae brownish red. Head and 

 thorax dull, abdomen shining. Wings hyaline." 



Kooa, Kalahari. (Schultze.) Nesting in part of a termites' mound. 



Race subopacutm, Smith. 

 Cat. Hymen. B.M., vol. 6, p. 127, £ , ? , 1858. 



£. 2'4 mm. Yellowish brown, the thorax a little paler ; antennae 

 and legs, except the tarsi, brownish } T ellow, tarsi dirty ochreous. 

 Entirely dull. Head, thorax and nodes very finely reticulate, the 

 abdomen microscopically so ; the space between the frontal carinae 

 faintly and longitudinally striate. Sparsely and very finely pubescent 

 on the head, more densely on the legs and antennae. The abdomen 

 with a few long, semi-erect hairs. Head a little wider in front than 

 behind, the sides moderately convex, the posterior angles rounded. 

 Clypeal carinae feeble, the space between them shining. Mandibles 

 longitudinally striate, slightly shining, tridentate. The scape extends 

 just beyond the occipital margin. Thorax narrower than the head, 

 narrowed at the meso-epinotal suture, which is not deep. Dorsum of 

 epinotum flat in profile, one-quarter longer than wide, three-fifths as 

 long as the pro-mesonotum ; the brow of the declivity, seen from the 

 side, is fairly angular but rounded ; the dorsum is shallowly and 

 triangularly excavated. Eirst node of petiole, seen in profile, wedge- 

 shaped but strongly rounded above, and as long as the 2nd node; the 

 latter almost quadrate, slightly wider in front than behind, and hardly 

 wider than the 1st. 



"2.5 mm. Opaque fusco-ferruginous ; abdomen black, with the 



