450 



Annals of the South African Museum. 



Amatongas Forest, Portuguese E. A. Under the bark of a decayed 

 tree. (R.M., G-.A. colls. ; types iu my collection.) 



P. strator, termitophila and Schoutedeni, Forel, are all closely allied ; 

 P. platycephala, Stitz, appears to be, judging from the description, 

 only a colour variety of P. Schoutedeni, Forel. 



Fig. 25a. — P. strator, Forel, race fugax, n. r. 

 P. (sub-genus Allopheidole, Forel) ctjitensis, Forel, race 



EEDDERSBTJRGENSIS, Forel. 



Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 54, p. 437, 1/, ? , 1910. 

 (Eace) Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 57, p. 135, 1/, £, $, <$, 1913. 



11 major. 4 - 2-5'5 mm. Dark castaneous red, the occipital lobes, 

 the pronotum, and sometimes also the basal half of the abdominal 

 segments of a brighter tint. Pilosity moderately abundant all over, 



Fig. 26. — P. cuitensis, Forel, race reddersburgensis, Forel. 



including the legs, antennae and mandibles, more oblique on the legs 

 than elsewhere, and on the flagellum intermixed with a shorter 

 pubescence. Anterior half of the head slightly shining, fairly strongly 

 and longitudinally striate, the spaces between the striae on the cheeks 

 reticulate-rugulose ; the posterior half of the bead smooth and shining, 

 very finely and sparsely punctured. The sides of the occipitofrontal 

 sulcus longitudinally striate. Mandibles smooth, shining, sparsely 

 punctured. Thorax fairly shining, finely and irregularly striate trans- 

 versely above, obliquely at the sides, and also more or less rugulose at 



