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the tibiae and scapes. Pubescence very sparse, more apparent on the 

 legs and antennae. Brownish rusty red ; head and abdomen brown. 

 " Natal (Wroughton)." 



T. SUBCOECUM, Eorel, var. inscia, Forel. 



Rev. d'Ent., vol. 26, p. 135, $ , 1908. 

 (Variety) Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr., Beiheft, p. 218, £ . 1913. 



ty . 3 mm. Ochreous, the head slightly reddish -yelloAv, the thorax 

 dirty yellow, the legs pale yellow. The whole body shining, except the 

 sides of the head and thorax which are somewhat dull. Head faintly 

 and sparsely longitudinally striate above, more strongly and more 

 densely at the sides. Thorax very finely and faintly striate at the 

 sides and in front of the pronotum, almost smooth elsewhere. Nodes 

 aud abdomen smooth. Pilosity yellow, moderately long, sparse and 

 obtuse, absent from the scapes and legs, which have only a very fine 

 decumbent pubescence. 



Head, excluding the mandibles, barely longer than wide, widest 

 across the eyes, and wider in front of them than behind ; the sides 

 fairly convex, the posterior angles slightly rounded, the posterior 

 margin feebly concave in the middle. Eyes very small, composed of a 

 single facet, placed in the middle of the sides. Clypeus with a feeble 

 median carina which does not reach the anterior margin ; the latter 

 narrowly emarginate in the middle. Mandibles shining, sparsely 

 punctured, feebly striate near the apex, armed with 6 very obtuse 

 teeth. Frontal carinae short, strongly divergent behind. The frontal 

 sulcus narrow, extending back* almost to the occiput. The scapes are 

 curved near the base, and reach back as far as the posterior sixth of 

 the head ; 2nd-8th joints of the flagellum wider than long. Pro- 

 mesonotal suture obsolete, meso-epinotal, shallow. Thorax marginate 

 at the sides and in front, strongly narrowed towards the meso-epinotal 

 suture. The pro-mesonotum is as long as it is wide in front, and 

 nearly three times wider in front than at the meso-epinolal suture. 

 Dorsum of epinotum almost twice as long as wide, longer than the 

 declivity. Epinotal spines acute, not much longer than they are wide 

 at the base, shorter than the interval between them, moderately 

 divergent and oblique. Episternal teeth hardly shorter than the 

 epinotal. Peduncle of the petiole as long as its node. The latter is 

 as long as wide, narrower in front than behind. Seen from the side, 

 it has a dorsal face which is feebly convex lengthwise, and a vertical 

 anterior face which is shorter than the subvertical posterior face. 

 Second node nearly one-third wider than long, its anterior margin 



