. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. Some Insects associated with Gnidia (Arthrosolen) laxa Gilg. 435 with about 7 short spines on each side from eye to mouth-parts, with the integument shining and more or less transversely wrinkled; mouth-cone bluntly pointed, short, extending to about half the length of prosternum, with a few fine hairs basally in front of the maxillary palps and a few fine ones below apex; labial palps minute; antennae 7-jointed in both sexes, extending to about wing-bases in the $, compara- tively shorter in the $,
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. Some Insects associated with Gnidia (Arthrosolen) laxa Gilg. 435 with about 7 short spines on each side from eye to mouth-parts, with the integument shining and more or less transversely wrinkled; mouth-cone bluntly pointed, short, extending to about half the length of prosternum, with a few fine hairs basally in front of the maxillary palps and a few fine ones below apex; labial palps minute; antennae 7-jointed in both sexes, extending to about wing-bases in the $, compara- tively shorter in the $, about reach- ing posterior margin of pronotum, with joint 1 sub-equal to 6, with joint 2 the longest and 3-5 progressively shorter, with joint 5 slightly produced apically on lower margin, with 7 the shortest and acuminate; in the $ with joints 6 and 7 combined subequal to 5 along upper margin, the last 3 joints subequal to 1 and 2 combined; in the $ with 5 about half as long as 2, and 6 and 7 combined subequal to 4. Thorax with the pronotum more or less hexagonal, the base and the postero-lateral sides being more or less straight and carinate, with the apical margin arcuately rounded and the antero- lateral sides broadly rounded; the upper surface slightly transversely depressed in apical part, quadrangularly convex discally, less Text-fig. 9. n si) (/$ ^ so in the $, with a feeble indication of a central depressed line, more evident posteriorly, with the integument smooth, shining, minutely and microscopically punc- tured centrally and discally, smooth apically, with 10 distinct spines on the disk, more developed in $, five on each side (a small bristle-like spine medially near apical margin, another longer and stouter backwardly directed one laterally in line with the medial one, a longer backwardly directed one laterally on a slight prominence just before middle, an equally stout one postero-laterally and a very fine, erect hair-like one centrally before the base); a poster
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