328 Annals of the South African Museum. 



The eyes occupy nearly half of the sides, placed in front Of the middle 

 of the head. Mayrian furrows well defined, mesonotum smooth and 

 shining ; scutellum and epinotum faintly rugulose. The dorsum and 

 declivity of the epinotum form a single plane, sloping steeply from 

 base to apex. Both nodes smooth and shining. First node, seen 

 from above, more or less lenticular, two-thirds wider than long, as 

 long as its peduncle, the middle of the sides angular. Second node 

 a little wider than long, and a little wider than the 1st. The 1st 

 node is more, and the 2nd node less convex from back to front than 

 in the 9 • Wings pale fuscous, the nervures yellowish. 



Durban. A widely distributed species which has been carried 

 through commerce to many parts of both hemispheres. It is fre- 

 quently found in hothouses in temperate countries. (S.A.M., R.M., 

 G.A. colls.) 



Var. Poweri, Forel. 

 Bull. Soc. Vaud. Sc. Nat., vol. 50, p. 225, $ , 1914. 



$ . 2 - 2-2'6 mm. Yellowish-red, antennae, legs, and mandibles 

 reddish-yellow, 1st abdominal segment more or less brownish, the 

 remaining segments yellow. The demiscrobes are practically obso- 

 lete, their position being indicated only by a smoother area, devoid of 

 sculpture and not lower than the rest of the surface. The frontal 

 carinae are not prolonged backwards, their place being taken by 3 or 

 4 irregular and longitudinal striae on each side ; the median area 

 between the striae almost smooth and distinctly shining. The head is 

 only feebly sculptured behind the eyes, fairly distinctly reticulate in 

 front of them, the floor of the meshes dull and finely rugulose. The 

 pro-mesonotum, except the lateral and anterior margins which are 

 finely rugulose, is smooth and shining ; the epinotum and sides of the 

 thorax very finely reticulate-punctate and subopaque, the sculpture 

 finest on the sides of the pro-thorax. Nodes and abdomen smooth 

 and shining. The clypeus is prominently carinate in the middle. 

 Mandibles shining, very sparsely and shallowly punctured, 6-dentate. 

 The pubescence of the legs and scapes is noticeably long and abundant. 

 The scape falls short of the occipital margin by a distance equal 

 to the length of the eye. Thorax feebly marginate above. Epinotal 

 teeth acute, very small, distinctly shorter than the episternal lobes. 

 The nodes of the petiole very convex above transversely, much less so 

 longitudinally. 



Kimberley (Brother Power). (S.A.M., E.M., G.A. colls.) 



