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Var. Braunsi, Forel. 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 57. p. 119, £, 1913. 

 Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. (Beiheft), p. 220, 1913. 



" ^ . 3 - 5-4 mm. Differs from the type by its larger eyes, longer 

 epinotal spines, and the hind margin of the head, which is more con- 

 cave. Otherwise like the type." 



Willowmore, Cape Prov. (Dr. H. Brauns) ; East London (ex 

 S.A.M. coll.) (S.A.M., E.M., G.A. colls.) 



It is misleading to compare this species with guineense, as its author 

 has done. This species and its var. Braunsi, have a very different 

 facies. The total absence of wide and coarse reticulations on the head 

 and thorax (the latter dull), and the form of the pro- and mesonotum, 

 which in profile form only a very slight convexity, suffice to remove it 

 fairly far from guineense. 



T. popovict, Forel. 

 Bull. Soc. Vaud. Sc. Nat., vol. 50, p. 230, £ , 1914. 



$. 3" 7 mm. Rather dark yellowish-red, the 1st abdominal seg- 

 ment more brownish, legs yellow. Pilosity yellowish and very scanty, 

 the hairs on the petiole and abdomen obtuse. Legs without pilose 

 hairs, merely sparsely pubescent. Head longitudinally, rugoso-striate, 

 the striae not very strong ; the sides of the head are reticulate-rugose, 

 the spaces between the reticulations finely reticulate-punctate. Dorsum 

 of thorax finely and more or less longitudinally rugulose. Sides of 

 thorax longitudinally rugose, partly reticulate. Head and thoi-ax 

 slightly shining. Nodes dull, shallowly and irregularly reticulate. 

 Abdomen smooth and shining. 



Head a little wider behind than in front, a trifle longer than wide, 

 the sides and posterior margin nearly straight, the posterior angles 

 widely rounded. Eyes rather small, placed in the middle of the sides. 

 Clypeus very narrowly excised in the middle of the anterior margin, 

 longitudinally striate, the median carina feeble. Frontal carinae well 

 defined, divergent in front, nearly parallel along their posterior half, 

 extending back almost to the occipital margin, hardly forming a demi- 

 scrobe. The scape falls short of the occipital margin by twice the 

 diameter of the eye; 2nd-7th joints of the flagellum wider than long. 

 Mandibles closely and longitudinally striate, armed with 7 teeth. 



Thorax rather short, the shoulders of the pronotum rounded. Pro- 

 mesonotal suture absent, meso-epinotal suture shallow, the lateral 



