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tely convex, the occipital margin very narrow. Scale of petiole as 

 long as high, the anterior and posterior faces convex. 



Smithwinkle Bay and Hermanus, Cape Prov., (Phillips, Lochee- 

 Bayne) (S.A.M., R.M., G.A. colls). 



Race liengmei, var. hansingi, Forel. (Plate IX, fig. 161). 



Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. Vol. 54, p. 452, Qj, 1910. 



Qj., 16 mm. Head as in Liengmei, the sides convex and bearing 

 a short exserted pilosity, (absent in importunoides). The median area 

 of the clypeus is wider than long, (as wide as long in importunoides), 

 the lobe shorter and with its anterior margin more sharply crenu- 

 late, the median carina also stronger. The mandibles are duller and 

 shorter tban in that variety. The sculpture of the head is stronger 

 than in importunoides, with the anterior third of the head also spar- 

 sely and " distinctly punctured. The ochreous spots on the 2nd ab- 

 dominal segment wider, almost meeting in the middle at the base, 

 the spots on the 3rd segment obsolete. Otherwise like importunoides. 



y media, 12-128 mm. The spots on the first two abdominal seg- 

 ments larger than in the Qj., confluent at the base of the segments, 

 those on the 3rd segment also large and almost meeting in the 

 middle. The lobe of the clypeus shorter and with wider lateral 

 angles than in importunoides. The sides of the head are convex from 

 front to back, not parallel in front of the eyes as in importunoides. 



§ minor, 9-? mm. Head shorter than in importunoides, being 

 barely two-thirds longer than wide (quite three-fourths longer in the 

 other variety). Otherwise like the ^ minor of importunoides. 



9, (hitherto undescribed) 16 mm. Colour as in the £ media; the 

 head widest behind, but otherwise like that of the § media. The 

 mesonotum has a dark median and two lateral longitudinal bands of 

 brownish colour. Declivity of epinotum vertical, longer than the 

 dorsum. Scale of petiole with a trenchant and straight dorsal edge, 

 feebly indented in the middle. Wings hyaline, nervures and stigma 

 brown. 



Willowmore, (Arnold); Grahamstown, (Cherry). 



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



Race fornasinii, Emery. 



Ann. Soc. Ent. France, Vol. 63, p. 46, % 1895. 



"Qj, 15 mm.; head 4-3 x 4-2 mm.; scape 4 mm.; posterior femur 

 5 nun, Closely allied to cognatas and compressus, almost as robust 



