744 Annals of the South African Museum. 



is on each side a short triangular tooth, as long as wide. The distance 

 between the apices of the inner spines is about twice the length of the 

 spine. Abdomen globose. Legs long and stout. 



Durban. 



(S.A.M., KM., G.A. colls.). 



Var. divinoides, Forel. 

 Eev. Zool. Afric, vol. 2, p. 348, 1913. 



A very slight variation in which the pronotum is as long as wide 

 or nearly so, and as wide in front as behind (excluding the sloping 

 neck-like portion in front of the spines). In the type species the 

 pronotum is one-quarter wider than long. The arc of the occiput is 

 more convex and the lateral spines of the scale shorter. 



Transvaal. 



Race rugulosa, Mayr. (Plate VIII, figs. 125, 125a). 

 Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 12, p. 685, & 1862. 



$, 10-11 mm. Very similar to the type of the species, but larger 

 and more robust, the pubescence less abundant, hardly hiding the 

 sculpture. The spaces between the rugae on the head and thorax 

 are slightly shining. The head is wider, more convex at the 

 sides, between one-sixth and one-seventh longer than wide ; the 

 clypeus feebly carinate. The lateral margins of the thorax are 

 more deeply emarginate at the pro-mesonotal suture, owing to the 

 sides of the pronotum converging more towards that point, and to 

 the corners of the mesonotum projecting further outwards. The 

 pronotal spines are wider at their base, and are very little more 

 than twice as long as wide at the base. The dorsal profile of the 

 thorax forms a higher convexity. The outer pair of spines on the 

 petiole are a little larger and less triangular. Otherwise like the 

 type of the species. 



$, (hitherto undescribed ?), 12 mm. Head a trifle longer than in 

 the $, and a little less convex-sided. Pronotal spines much shorter 

 than in the $, plainly visible from above, a little longer than their 

 basal width. Mesonotum wider than long, very convex in front. 

 Scutellum very convex from front to back, transversely oval, half 

 as long as the mesonotum and four-fifths wider than long. Dorsum 

 of epinotum moderately oblique, feebly convex transversely, widest at 



