358 Annals of the South African Museum. 



seen from above, is much wider, more pyriform than clavate ; the 

 nodal portion is a little wider than long. The 2nd node is trans- 

 versely oval, two and a half times wider than long and about twice 

 as wide as the widest part of the 1st, hardly thinner at the sides than 

 in the middle. 



Ladismith, Cape Prov. (Dr. H. Brauns.) (S.A.M., E.M., G.A. 

 colls.) 



Genus TETEAMYEMA, Forel. 

 Eev. Suisse Zool., vol. 20, p. 766, 1912. 



Characters 



^ . Antennae 12-jointed, club 3- or 4-jointed. Frontal carinae 

 divergent, short, not forming scrobes. Lateral portions of the clypeus 

 not ridged posteriorly, the median area more or less trapezoidal, pro- 

 duced fairly far back between the frontal carinae. Frontal area dis- 

 tinct. Mandibles triangular, 5-dentate. Thorax unarmed ; the sutures 

 visible but feeble. First node of petiole pedunculate, both nodes 

 large and round. Femora thin at the base, moderately swollen from 

 the basal fourth onwards. 



$ . Antennae 12-jointed. Ergatoid. Eyes larger than in the £ . 

 Ocelli absent. A more or less distinct scutellum present. Nodes 

 wider and less convex above. Abdomen dilated, larger than in the 

 $ . Pilose (pilosity absent in the ^ )• 



<$ . Unknown. 



T. Bratjnsi, Forel. (Plate VII, fig. 86.) 



Loc. cit., p. 767, £ . 



Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 57, p. 122, $ , 1913. 



^ . 5-6 mm. Black, thorax, nodes, and mandibles dark red, the 

 nodes darkest, the bases of the femora and tibiae dark rusty red. 

 Tarsi and antennae with a sparse and decumbent pubescence, the rest 

 of the body glabrous. Subopaque. Head, thorax, and nodes coarsely 

 rugoso-reticulate, the rugae emphasised longitudinally on the head 

 and pro-mesonotum ; on the nodes and epinotum the sculpture is 

 finer and closer, although still fairly coarse. The spaces between the 

 rugae is finely reticulate. Abdomen very finely, closely, and longi- 

 tudinally striate, also partly reticulate. Legs and scapes sparsely 

 punctate. 



