338 Annals of the South African Museum. 



brown ; the pubescence and sculpture as in the ^ . Mesonotum and 

 scutellum longitudinally rugose. Otherwise like the type of the £ . 

 The anterior wings fairly clear. Port Elizabeth. (Dr. H. Brauns)." 



T. Aknoldi, Forel. (Plate VII, fig. 93.) 



Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. Beiheft, p. 220, $, 1913. 



^ . 22-3 mm. Ochreous or reddish-ochreous ; antennae, and 

 sometimes also the abdomen, darker. Head, thorax, and petiole 

 dull, abdomen smooth and shining. Mandibles and clypeus slightly 

 shining. Head, thorax, and petiole very closely and finely reticulate- 

 punctate or granulate; in addition, the head above is finely and 

 longitudinally striate, the scrobes and the cheeks in front finely 

 punctate only. Legs slightly shining. Pubescence very short and 

 yellowish, fairly scanty all over ; the erect pilose hairs are also short 

 and sparse. All the hairs simple. 



Head as long as wide, slightly narrowed in front, the posterior 

 angles widely rounded, the posterior margin almost straight. Clypeus 

 feebly carinate in the middle, and with two or three longitudinal and 

 raised lines on each side of the carina ; the anterior margin straight. 

 Frontal area small and indistinct. Mandibles finely striate, with 

 7 teeth, the 4 posterior ones indistinct. The frontal carinae diverge 

 behind the antennal sockets and are continued in a slight curve 

 almost to the posterior margin of the head, where they curve down- 

 wards and forwards below the eye. The scrobe so formed is distinct 

 but shallow, and is divided into two by a longitudinal raised line. 

 Eyes small, placed at about the middle of the sides. Scape of 

 antenna extends back almost to the posterior fourth of the head ; 

 2nd-7th joints of the flagellum quite two and half times wider than 

 long. Thorax short, not longer than the head, considerably narrowed 

 between the meso- and epinotum, feebly convex longitudinally, a little 

 more strongly so transversely, the anterior face abrupt, the shoulders 

 of the pronotum rounded. Thoracic sutures obsolete. Epinotum 

 marginate laterally, the dorsum one and a quarter times longer than 

 wide, the declivity oblique and shorter than the dorsum. Epinotal 

 teeth almost triangular, very little longer than wide at the base, slightly 

 divergent, merging in front and behind in the raised margins of the 

 epinotum. Episternal teeth small and blunt, smaller than the epi- 

 notal. First joint of petiole with the peduncle shorter than the 

 node ; the latter one and a half times wider than long, convex behind 

 transversely, straight, or feebly concave in front, the dorsal surface 

 feebly convex transversely and sloping downwards and backwards. 



