586 Annals of the South African Museum. 



15-2-5 is taken up by the abdomen, which is greatly distended. 

 Head trapezoidal, much narrowed in front, concave behind. Second 

 and 3rd joints of the flagellum very slightly longer than wide. Scape 

 as in the normal r3. Mesonotum not at all constricted in the middle, 

 but of the ordinary shape, forming with the pronotum a very wide 

 convexity, in which the metanotum and the two stigmata merely 

 continue the curve of the mesonotum down to the meta-epinotal 

 suture. The latter and the epinotum and all else exactly as in the 

 § minor. Pro-mesonotal suture very distinct, as in the § minor (hardly 

 feebler). Ocelli indistinct. 



"Kammagas, Little Namaland. (Schultze)." 



I have preferred to copy the author's original description, as the 

 only specimen (cotype) which I possess is somewhat damaged. From 

 Deiveti it may be distinguished by its smaller size, narrower prono- 

 tum which is as long as wide, and by the short meso-metanotum, 

 which is barely widened posteriorly, (distinctly widened in Deiveti). 



Sub-genus ZEALLEYELLA, Arnold. 

 For characters see table of sub-genera. 



P. (sub-gen. Zealleyella) Custodiens, Smith. 

 (Plate VIII, figs 123, 123 a). 



Cat. Hymen. B.M. VI, p. 33, §. 1858. 



Roger, (Camponotus henclecarthrus) Berlin. Ent. Zeitschr. vol. 7, 

 p. 123, ?. 1863. 



Mayr, Ann. K.K.N.H. Mus. Wien, vol. 10, p. 148. tf. 1895. 



^ maxima, 9*2 mm. Head, thorax, legs and antennae dark burnt 

 sienna or brownish brick-red, the masticatory margins of the man- 

 dibles black, abdomen dark brown. Densely clothed all over with 

 a pale yellow and silky or slightly golden pubescence. The pubes- 

 cence on the flagellum somewhat oblique, elsewhere decumbent. On 

 the abdomen the pubescence is long, slightly masking the integument, 

 and is so arranged as to present a pattern of alternating dark and 

 bright longitudinal stripes. This is due to the light being reflected 

 in different directions, since the hairs on the median third or more 

 of each segment are directed inwards, those on the outer third or 

 less dhected outwards, and at the extreme sides again directed 

 inwards. Mandibles nitidulous, longitudinally striate and coarsely 

 punctured. The rest of the body, including the legs and antennae? 



