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very convex, subglobose, wider than the 1st node. Abdomen truncate 

 at the base, the lateral angles rounded. 



Bulawayo : Matopo Hills, S.E. (S.A.M., R.M., G.A. coll.) 



T. TRAEGAORDHI, Santschi. 



Goteborgs Kungl. Vetens. och Vitterh. Handl. XV, 2, p. 23, $ , 9 , 



1914. 



$. 2"5-2 # 7 mm. Pale yellow. Very similar to var. inscia of 

 subcoecum, and differing from it chiefly in the following characters : 



The pilosity is longer, more abundant, and not obtuse. The 

 sculpture of the head is finer and almost effaced above ; the sides 

 of the thorax are dull, closely and very finely reticulate-punctate, not 

 striate, as in inscia. Mandibles distinctly striate, with about 7 teeth. 

 The thoracic sutures obsolete. The pronotum is much less convex 

 lengthwise in front, and its lateral margins are not so convex. The 

 thorax is also less narrowed than in inscia, and the lateral margins 

 of the inesonotum are straight, or even slightly concave, whereas in 

 inscia they are distinctly convex. The dorsum of the epinotum is 

 wider and flatter, and the epinotal teeth are triangular and longer 

 than the episternal ; the latter are merely rounded lobes, not distinct 

 and pointed teeth as in inscia. The peduncle of the petiole is very 

 closely and finely punctured (smooth in inscia), and the node, seen 

 from above, is not subcorneal in front, but convex, or with a slight 

 suggestion of an anterior and two lateral margins. The 2nd node is 

 wider than the 1st and, seen from above, hemispherical in outline. 



" $ . 3"3 mm. Ocelli and mandibular margin brownish-black. 

 Head duller than in the £ • Eyes as large as one-quarter of the 

 sides of the head. Mesonotum and scutellum very polished and 

 shining. First node higher than in the £ . Wings hyaline, with the 

 nervures pale yellow, the anterior wing 4 mm. long. Stamford Hill, 

 Natal (Traegaordh)." 

 (G. A. coll.) 



T. SEMIRETICULATUM, 11. Sp. 



$ . 2 - 2-2'4 mm. Castaneous or reddish-brown ; the anterior third 

 of the head, the basal third of the 1st abdominal segment, and the 

 whole of the remaining segments somewhat paler, antennae, mandibles, 

 and legs yellowish-brown. Pilosity sparse, composed of short, oblique 

 thin, and pointed yellowish hairs. Pubescence very fine and short, 

 present only on the legs and antennae. The whole body dull, except 



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