434 Annals of the South African Museum. 



strongly and closely punctured. Epinotum irregularly and shallowly 

 rugose. Anterior half of 2nd node longitudinally striolate. Base 

 of abdomen smooth and shining, not alutaceous and subopaque as in 

 punctulata $ . Otherwise the sculpture is as in that species. Head 

 -wide, nearly as wide as the thorax across the tegulae. Clypeus with 

 an obtusely angular emargination in front, and a fairly strong median 

 carina. Head one-fifth wider than long, very little narrowed in front. 

 Mesonotum one-third wider than long, the scutellum half as long as 

 the mesonotum. Dorsum of epinotum much wider than long, epinotal 

 teeth more acute than in punctulata $ , one-third as long as the 

 interval between their bases, directed obliquely upwards ; the declivity 

 vertical. Upper face of 1st node depressed behind its anterior 

 margin, the anterior face of the 2nd node much less convex than in 

 punctulata, the anterior angles less acute and less produced. Wings 

 yellowish, nervures brownish-yellow. Otherwise like punctulata $ . 



Estcourt, Natal (R. C. Wroughton) ; Botha ville and Reddersburg, 

 O.F.S. Fort Elizabeth and Knysna, Cape Prov. (Dr. H. Brauns). 

 (S.A.M., B.M., Gr.A. colls. ; type of £ in my collection). 



Var. pttbens, Eorel. 



Schultze, Beise Slid. Afrika, vol. 4, p. 12, 1/, £, 1910. 



Differs from the type by its paler colour, dark castaneous in the 1/ , 

 yellowish -brown in the £ , also by the longer pilosity and longer 

 epinotal spines. 



Natal (Haviland and Wroughton) . (G-.A. coll.) 



P. Pkelli, Eorel, race redbankensis, Forel. 



Bull. Soc. Yaud. Sc. Nat., vol. 47, p. 362, %, £ , $ , $, 1911. 

 (Race) Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 57, p. 128, 1/, £, 1913. 



%. 4 - 8-5 - 2 mm. Bright castaneous red (burnt sienna), the an- 

 terior margin of the clypeus and the masticatory margin of the man- 

 dibles piceous ; basal fourth and fifth of the abdomen yellowish-red, 

 the rest piceous ; legs reddish-yellow, the antennae dark brownish-red. 

 Pilosity yellowish, sparse and oblique, almost absent on the thorax ; 

 legs and antennae very sparsely pubescent. Head longitudinally striate, 

 the striae fairly parallel and widely spaced. The striae on the middle of 

 the vertex are strongest and curve outwards over the occipital lobes. The 

 fundamental sculpture between the striae is a fine reticulation which 

 is fairly sharp at the sides of the head and feeble between the frontal 

 carinae. The area between the latter fairly shining, the sides of the 

 head duller. Thorax subopaque, finely reticulate, with a few fine 



