Axxals or the Transvaal Museum. 
long, article 1 small and narrow, article 11 attenuated at its base, at least 
twice as long as article 111, article IV very small, hidden in a pit near the 
extremity and on the ventral surface of article 111 with numerous terminal 
hairs ; marginal hairs on articles 11 and 111. Legs brownish, of medium 
length, thick and swollen, hairs rare and short ; coxae rather long, a single- 
short spine on the postero-median margin of each ; tarsi at least three 
times as long as wide, a large bosse near the extremity and on the dorsal 
side of each, two consecutive spurs, the terminal larger, on coxae II, 111. 
and l'V ; caruncle short, scarcely reaching a quarter of the length of the 
claws. 
Female. — Body thick, wider behind than in front, widely rounded 
at the two extremities ; colour generally reddish brown ; reaching a 
length of 7 mm. and a width of 5 mm. or more. Shield heart shaped, 
as long as wide, contour a little sinuous, posterior angle rather narrow, 
well emarginated in front, glabrous I cervical grooves wide, deep, and 
short, prolonged backward by a superficial groove, which is concave out- 
ward ; punctuations, fine numerous, three metallic green spots as 
follows-: — One in each cervical angle, bordering on the cervical grooves, 
and one on the posterior angle ; sometimes the spots are very faint in 
colour, but always more or- less sharply defined. Dorsal ' surface with 
four anterior grooves, short and symmetrical, followed by three shorter 
grooves, and finally by three or five grooves, which are long and close 
to the median line ; hairs very short, scattered ; punctuations fine, 
scattered, porose areas just posterior of shield, widely separated. Ventral 
surface with colour, punctuations, and hair as on dorsal surface ; sexual 
orifice narrow, a little in front of the level of coxae II ; sexual grooves 
very widely separated behind ; anus near the posterior quarter of the length 
of the body ; anal groove semi-circular, opening forward ; ano-marginal 
groove long, a short groove on each side of it, in partly engorged females ; 
stigmatic plates large, triangular, transverse. Rostrum (XIV, g) rather 
large, narrow, nearly as long as shield ; base with dorsal surface nearly 
as long as wide, rounded on the sides ; porose areas large, deep, slightly 
elongate longitudinally ; digit of mandibles with inner apophysis strong, 
conical, base thick, point recurved, with the transverse process near the 
tip, outer apophysis with three teeth, strong, largest near the base y 
h'ypostome with denticles at tip, then six to seven large teeth in a row, 
crenulations to base (XIV, d) ; palpi as in male. Legs as in male ; coxae 
bearing one spine on their postero-median margin (XV, c) ; tarsi as in 
male, except that only on tarsus I is the bosse near its extremity very 
prominent (XIV, i). 
Nymph. — Body flattened, wider behind, broadly rounded at both, 
extremities, almost orbicular ; colour dark reddish brown ; length 2.3 mm. 
(without rostrum), width 2 mm. Shield (XI V, e) dark chestnut brown, 
postero-central area and posterior edge of the cervical emargination a little 
lighter ; heart shaped ; as wide as long ; widely rounded behind ; 
postero-lateral edges concave ; antero-lateral edges convex ; punctua- 
tions few but large, and of equal size ; cervical grooves deep at 
first, then shallow and diverging toward the margins ; cervical emargina- 
tion shallow. Dorsal surface with a few large punctuations and a few 
whitish short hairs ; four short anterior grooves, followed by a set of 
two short lateral grooves on each side, one anterior of the other, and 
these in turn by three long grooves, one median and two lateral, which 
diverge posteriorly, with the addition of a short groove on each side of 
