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head. Eyes placed in the middle of the sides of the head. Mandibles 

 sharply striate longitudinally. Clypeus and front of the head longi- 

 tudinally striate, very superficially so on the former ; the rest of the 

 head smooth and very shining. Pronotum and mesonotum very 

 feebly marginate at the sides ; pronotum only slightly depressed, very 

 rounded at the shoulders ; mesonotum without a median carina, 

 separated from the pronotum by a feebly marked depression ; meso- 

 epinotal suture deep ; epinotum armed with 2 short, stout spines, not 

 very acute, feebly divergent and shorter than the interval between 

 their bases. The thorax is smooth and very shining, except the sides 

 of the meso- and epinotum and the dorsum of the latter, which are 

 longitudinally rugose. First segment of the petiole longer than wide, 

 trapezoidal, a little wider in front than behind, the anterior angles 

 rounded ; 2nd segment transversely oval, neither grooved nor emarginate 

 above. The 2 nodes are superficially rugose and shining. Abdomen 

 smooth and very shining. Pubescence fine, short and very scanty, 

 almost absent on the head, a little more abundant on the abdomen. 

 Scapes and tibiae without erect hairs. Varying from ferruginous 

 to reddish-brown ; the legs often paler ; abdomen blackish-brown, 

 often reddish at the base. 

 " Gambia." 



Var. kkantziana, Forel. 

 Bull. Soc. Vaud. Sc. Nat., vol. 50, p. 234, $, g, 1914. 



" ^ • 3'6-4 - 5 mm. The spines are slender and much longer than 

 in the type-species, three-fourths as long as the interval between them. 

 The petiole is also wider in front and the anterior angles more 

 rounded. The colour is paler and duller, and the 1st abdominal 

 segment is entirely yellowish. Otherwise like the type of Andre, 

 which is in my possession." 



$ . 92 mm. (hitherto undescribed). Dark reddish-ochreous, the 

 ocellar area, two longitudinal bands on the parapsidal sutures, the 

 middle third of the abdominal segments and the apex of the abdomen 

 more or less reddish-brown. Head dull, very finely striate longi- 

 tudinally, the striae almost effaced behind the ocelli. Mesonotum and 

 scutellum nitidulous, smooth, sparsely and feebly punctured. Dorsum 

 of epinotum transversely rugose and dull. Petiole dull and very finely 

 coriaceous. Abdomen smooth, not very shining. Head quadrate, 

 parallel- sided, or very little narrower in front than behind, the 

 posterior margin straight, the posterior angles narrowly rounded. 

 Mesonotum one-fourth longer than wide, two and a-half times longer 



