592 Annals of the South African Museum. 



cf. 6-7 mm. (hitherto undescribed). Black, the 1st abdominal 

 segment sometimes paler or brownish black, the antennae and legs, 

 excepting the ferruginous bases and apices of the femora and tibiae, 

 brown, the tarsi brownish ochreous. Slightly shining all over, a 

 narrow semicircular area in front of the ocelli very shining, Very 

 finely and rather superficially punctate-rugulose, the mesonotum and 

 scutellum very finely and evenly punctured, the abdomen exceedingly 

 delicately rugulose. Very much like the tf of custodiens, but easily 

 distinguished by its smaller size, darker colour and moderately 

 shining integument. It also differs from it in the following features. 

 The 1st joint of the flagellum is clearly shorter than the 2nd. (as 

 long in custodiens). The eyes are much more prominent, hemisphe- 

 rical. The scale of the petiole is thinner, more deeply emarginate 

 in the middle, the anterior face flat or slightly concave transversely, 

 not convex. The genital armature is relatively much larger and 

 quite differently formed. The stipes at the base is ochreous and 

 very convex and large, narrowing rapidly to the long apical por- 

 tion. The sagittae are elongate and subacute at the apex, not 

 lamelliform, widely rounded at the apex and as wide there as at the 

 base as in custodiens. The wings as in the Q. 



Willowmore, Mafeking, Orange River; Choaherib, S.W.A. (R. E. 

 W. Tucker). The specimens from Choaherib have the cheeks more 

 strongly punctured in the smaller ^ ^, and the Q is a trifle larger. 



(S.A.M., R.M., G.A. colls.; type of 9 and cf in my collection. 



P. (sub-gen. Zealleyella) Braunsi, Forel. 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. vol. 57, p. 141, &-1913. 



§. 31-5-1 mm. 



^ maxima. 51 mm. Head, thorax and petiole reddish brown 

 (a brownish burnt sienna), the mandibles and clypeus more reddish 

 than the rest, abdomen dark brown, femora brown, tibiae, tarsi and 

 antennae rusty reddish brown. Pubescence very scanty and short, 

 longer on the legs and scapes and somewhat oblique. Pilosity short, 

 yellowish, more abundant on the occiput and abdomen than else- 

 where. Head slightly shining, finely and closely reticulate-rugulose ; 

 the rest of the body shining, very superficially rugulose on the sides 

 of the pro-mesonotum, dorsum of epinotum and the scale of the 

 petiole. Head barely longer than wide, narrowed a little in front, 

 or including the closed mandibles, triangular with the basal corners 

 rounded. The sides are much less convex than in Steingroeveri. 

 Posterior margin feebly convex. Mandibles nitidulous, striato-punct- 



