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with the basal third of the 1st segment reddish- brown, and the 

 apical margins of all the segments testaceous. The scutellum is more 

 distinctly defined, and the 2nd node of the petiole is shorter and much 

 wider than in any of the preceding. species. 



5 • 3-3*2 mm. Dark reddish-brown, the disc of the pronotum 

 and the dorsum of the epinotum paler or more castaneous red, femora 

 and tibiae reddish-yellow-brown, flagellum and tarsi yellowish-brown. 

 A few long and exserted hairs occur on the body, shorter on the head 

 than elsewhere ; legs and antennae with a fairly abundant, long and 

 exserted pubescence of a pale-yellowish colour. The f rons and vertex 

 are fairly smooth and shining, the rest of the head finely reticulate 

 and longitudinally striate, the striae becoming weaker behind the 

 eyes, hardly reaching as far as the posterior angles. Mandibles 

 finely and longitudinally striate, with a few shallow punctures near 

 the masticatory margin ; the latter is armed with two large and 

 acute teeth at the apex, and five or six smaller teeth behind. Pronotum 

 sparsely and transversely striate in front, very superficially reticulate- 

 rugulose and shining at the sides and behind, almost smooth, the rest 

 of the thorax a little duller and closely reticulate. Nodes of petiole 

 shallowly rugulose and slightly shining. Abdomen smooth and 

 shining. Head, excluding the mandibles, as long as wide, widest in 

 the middle, the sides fairly convex, the hind margin straight or only 

 feebly concave. Eyes rather large, placed in the middle of the sides. 

 Clypeus carinate, the anterior margin convex. Frontal area large. 

 Frontal carinae subparallel, hardly extending back beyond the level 

 of the anterior margin of the eyes. The scapes extend beyond the 

 hind margin of the head by as much as the length of the 1st joint of 

 the flagellum ; the latter is twice as long as the 2nd joint. Pro- 

 mesonotal suture obsolete. Posterior lateral angles of pronotum 

 prominent, slightly produced outwards, and, seen from the side, 

 subdentiform. Mesonotum with a feeble transverse impression, the 

 declivous face of the scutellar portion longer than the upper face. 

 Meso-epinotal suture deep, the thorax fairly strongly constricted 

 at this point. Dorsum of epinotum marginate at the sides, widening 

 towards the apex, twice as long as wide. Epinotal teeth vertical, 

 acute, a little longer than their basal width, half as long as the space 

 between them : the declivity shorter than the dorsum. First segment 

 of petiole two-thirds longer than high, the dorsal edge not high and 

 barely emarginate, the dorsal face wider in front than behind ; 2nd 

 node with the sides produced into two very distinct cones, obtuse at 

 the apex. 



Bothaville, O.F.S. (Dr. H. H. Brauns) ; Pretoria (Lounsbury). 



