278 Annals of the South African Museum. 



very shallow punctures on the posterior half of the head and on the 

 pronotum. Abdomen smooth and moderately shining, microscopically 

 alutaceous near the base. Nodes nitidulous, head and thorax rather 

 dull. 



Head hardly longer than wide, the sides feebly convex, the posterior 

 margin sti'aight, the posterior angles moderately rounded, as wide in 

 front as behind. Eyes placed at the middle of the sides of the head. 

 Clypeus with a distinct median carina, not very convex transversely, 

 the anterior margin almost straight. Frontal area distinct; a shallow 

 frontal sulcus present, not extending beyond the middle of the vertex. 

 Frontal carinae short. Mandibles 6-dentate, closely and finely striate. 

 The scape of the antenna extends back beyond the occipital margin by 

 not more than its own thickness ; 1st joint of flagellum not quite as 

 long as the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th joints taken together. Thoracic sutures 

 obsolete. The thorax is feebly marginate in front, the shoulders of 

 the pronotum subangular and low. The anterior third of the pro- 

 mesonotum slopes downwards and forwards, the remaining portion is 

 level with the epinotum. The thorax is not strongly constricted 

 between the meso- and epinotum. Dorsum of epinotum nearly twice 

 as long as the declivity ; epinotal spines divergent, directed upwards 

 and backwards, a little longer than their basal width, distinctly shorter 

 than the interval between their bases ; epistemal teeth almost as long 

 as the epinotal. First node of the petiole wider behind than in front, 

 about one-third longer than wide, feebly convex transversely above, 

 the anterior face short and oblique, the posterior face short and ver- 

 tical. The node is twice as long as its peduncle, the latter bearing 

 a small tooth below. Second node a little wider than long, widest 

 behind, wider than the 1st, subglobose. Sides of abdomen moderately 

 convex. Legs slender and rather long ; femora hardly swollen in the 

 middle. 



Table Mountain. (S.A.M., R.M., G.A. colls.) 



T. Blochmanni, Forel, race contistentis, Forel. 



Mitth. Schweiz. Ent. G-es., vol. 7, p. 384, £, 1887. 



(Eace) Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 54, p. 426, £, 1910. 



^ . 38 mm. Head, thorax, and nodes dark castaneous, abdomen 

 brownish-black. Occasionally the head, thorax, and nodes are paler, 

 more yellowish-red, with the abdomen brown. Antennae and legs 

 reddish-brown, the middle and hind femora dark brown. Pilosity 

 and pubescence as in quadrispinosicm. 



Head, thorax, and nodes dull, finely reticulate -punctate, and also 



