380 Annals of the South African Museum. 



with masses of spongy tissue, very large below the peduncle of the 

 1st node. A very narrow band of the same tissue margins each side 

 of the vertical declivity of the epinotum. Ventral surface of abdomen 

 very convex. 



Port Elizabeth (Brauns). (G-.A. coll.) 



S. transversa, Santschi. 

 G-oteborgs Kungl. Vetensk. och Vitterh. Handl., XV, 2, p. 31, £ , 1914. 



" ^ . 2'2 mm. Dark yellowish-brown. Mandibles, antennae and 

 legs of a lighter brown. Head covered with curved spatulate hairs. 

 A regular fringe of similar hairs borders the clypeus and the lower 

 margins of the scapes, but on the latter the five inner hairs are 

 directed inwards, and the two outer ones outwards. A few rare hairs 

 of the same kind occur on the pronotum. Epinotum and abdomen 

 with simple hairs, fairly scanty. Legs, antennae and abdomen pubes- 

 cent. Reticulate-punctate and dull. Declivity of the epinotum, 1st 

 segment of the petiole and the abdomen smooth and shining, except a 

 few striae on the basal fourth of the latter. 



" Head one-quarter longer than wide, emarginate behind. Clypeus 

 pentagonal, the anterior margin straight (concave in emarginata, 

 Mayr), partly covering the mandibles. The latter denticulate on the 

 front half, the exposed part a little shorter than the length of the 

 clypeus. First and 4th joints of the flagellum subequal, 2nd and 3rd 

 a little wider than long, the 5th as long as the rest of the flagellum. 

 Pronotum much wider than long, the anterior margin forming a 

 narrower triangle. Pro-mesonotal suture very distinct. Mesonotum 

 slightly convex, continued behind on the same level as the dorsum of 

 the epinotum, which is marginate and parallel-sided. Epinotal spines 

 wide at the base, longer than half the interval between them, slightly 

 divergent. Declivity of epinotum concave, margined with spongy 

 bands. First node low, the anterior face only slightly oblique, the 

 summit rounded and wider than long. Second node twice as wide as 

 the 1st, and twice as wide as long, convex. A fairly large spongy 

 mass surrounds the nodes. Allied to emarginata, Mayr, from which it 

 differs chiefly in the colour and the clypeus. which is not emarginate. 



" Pietermaritzburg (Traegaordh)." 



S. Simoni, Emery. 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 63, p. 42, £ , 1895. 

 " ty . 17 mm. Testaceous, reticulate-punctate, dull, the dorsum of 



