520 Annals of the South African Museum. 



sion in front of the latter. First segment of the petiole toothed below, 

 subpyriform (the apex truncate, the broad end anterior), not niuch 

 wider in front than behind, the sides not very convex, as wide as 

 long ; 2nd segment with a shallow median groove, the discs well 

 defined behind, each disc at least half as long again as wide. Abdo- 

 men cordate, the apex acute. Legs decidedly long. 



" $ . 10 - 5-ll mm. Near arbor ea-melanogaster, but the bach of the 

 head is shining, almost smooth and smaller (narrower than the thorax). 

 Clypeus impressed in front. Dark brown. Head, petiole and patches 

 on the middle of the abdominal segments brownish-red, like the legs 

 and antennae." 



Steinkopf, Little ISTamaland ; in nest of Hamitermes runconifer, 

 Silv. The subterranean nest was hidden under a stone ; also at 

 Kammagas, Little Namaland, one ^ ; Prince of Wales's Island 

 (Schultze). (G.A. coll.) 



Fig. 4].— C. Schultzei, Forel. 



C. Buchneej, Forel. 



Mitt. Schweiz. Ent. Ges., vol. 9, p. 94, £, 1894. 



" £ . 4-6*5 mm. Mandibles coarsely striate and sparsely punctured. 

 Head noticeably large, somewhat flattened, wider than long, deeply 

 emarginate behind, narrower in front than behind. Anterior margin 

 of clypeus widely and deeply excised in the middle and at the sides. 

 Clypeus fairly flat, not carinate. Frontal area and sulcus deep. 

 Eyes flat, placed at or a little behind the middle of the sides. The 

 scape does not reach quite as far as the hind margin of the head ; 

 club 3-jointed, all the joints of the flagellum at least a little longer 

 than wide. Pronotum fairly narrow, and fairly distinctly marginate 

 at the sides. Mesonotum convex, with a high and elongate median 

 carina, obliquely declivous at its posterior extremity, barely marginate 

 laterally. Meso-epinotal suture deep. Epinotal spines broad, mode- 

 rately long, only slightly divergent, feebly curved downwards, two- 

 thirds the length of the interval between them. First segment of 

 petiole considerably flattened ; in the small ^ ^ rectangular, rounded 

 at the corners and longer than wide ; in the large ^ $ as long as wide, 



