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and convex, very little wider than long, seen from above almost 

 circular. 



Redbank, S. Rhodesia ; Wiilowmore, Cape Prov. (Brauns). 



The specimens from Wiilowmore might perhaps be considered as a 

 slight variety. The 2J. has the dorsum of the epinotum concave as in 

 the $, the declivity is less oblique and the scale is thinner. In the 

 $ minor the scale is less nodiform and thinner, the dorsal face merging 

 into the posterior face in a curve, not truncate as in the examples 

 from Redbank. The colour of the scapes is entirely black. 



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



C. Bedoti, Emery, var. klugii, Emery. 



Rev. Zool. Suisse, vol. 1, p. 196, 1893. 



(variety), Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 63, p. 51, $, minor, 1895. 



"Extremely close to the type of the species, from which it hardly 

 merits separation as a geographical variety. The puncturation is 

 the same, and the head is feebly shining in front. The clypeal carina 

 is more distinct, .... pilosity as in the other forms of Bedoti." 



Capetown, (Simon). 



The type of the species is Malayan, (Borneo, Sula), and is described 

 as follows : — 



"tf minor, 3-5-4*7 mm. Black ; mandibles, trochanters, tibiae and 

 tarsi in greater part, and sometimes the flagellum, ferruginous, the base 

 of the scapes testaceous ; shining, very delicately reticulate-punctate, 

 with sparse pubescent and pilose punctures, the cheeks in front more 

 deeply punctured and subopaque, abdomen transversely striolate ; 

 sparingly pubescent and with a long and scanty pilosity, the scapes 

 and tibiae hardly pilose. Head ovate, the clypeal carina almost 

 obsolete, mandibles 5-dentate, shining, punctate ; frontal carinae 

 divergent and sigmoid. Pronotum and mesonotum moderately 

 convex, the meso-epinotal suture distinct, the epinotum compressed, 

 its base slightly elevated and thence narrowly flattened above, seen 

 from the side subrectangular, with a saddle-shaped impression, 

 subgibbose behind ; the scale fairly thick, truncate behind, its upper 

 margin rounded. . . . The epinotum is compressed and presents a 

 characteristic profile. After rising a little from the base of the 

 mesonotum it descends in a gentle slope which represents the slightly 

 depressed dorsum, and passes thence by an abrupt curve into the 

 concave declivity. In the large specimens the profile of the dorsum 

 of the epinotum is excavated in a saddle-shaped manner, which makes 



