. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 108 Annals of the South African Museum. Fastigium of vertex, frons, and lower anterior part of cheeks blackisli. Clypeus becoming somewhat paler downwards, labrum darker again distally. Mandibles red-brown, blackish at the tip. Pronotum bronzy black ; in ? there is present a large orange-yellow spot around the ascending branch of the V-sulcus, passing backwards below into several somewhat irregular smaller spots, and above emitting forwards a sharp point on disc, joined to the opposite one by two sma
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 108 Annals of the South African Museum. Fastigium of vertex, frons, and lower anterior part of cheeks blackisli. Clypeus becoming somewhat paler downwards, labrum darker again distally. Mandibles red-brown, blackish at the tip. Pronotum bronzy black ; in ? there is present a large orange-yellow spot around the ascending branch of the V-sulcus, passing backwards below into several somewhat irregular smaller spots, and above emitting forwards a sharp point on disc, joined to the opposite one by two small trans- verse orange-yellow spots close before the middle of pronotum ; just before hind margin another orange-yellow transverse median spot on disc. All these colorations are present in the S too, but darker and much less well defined, so that they may be easily overlooked. Femora. Fig. 14.—FaJcu nigrifrons. Left: Head of (^ in lateral view. Middle : (^ sub- genital plate. Right above : Ovipositor. Right below : $ subgenital plate. Same magnifications as in fig. 12 (head less than the others). yellow-brown, with blackish reticulation, gradually darkened above and towards the knees. Tibiae and tarsi almost black. Spines of legs brown with dark tips. Ovipositor yellow-brown at base, becoming darker distally, but abruptly yellow-brown again before the tip. Head in $ slightly, in c^ decidedly wider than pronotum. Occiput strongly arched, especially in the c?. Fastigium of vertex twice as wide as the first antennal joint, below arcuately rounded, surface excavate and impresso-punctate. Three dark yellow ocellar dots rather distinct. Fastigium frontis arched in $, whilst in the ^ pro- minent downwards and thus passing over into a blunt, conical elevation, the tip of which is situated at about the middle of the frons; from here downwards the surface of frons slopes suddenly and strongly again towards the clypeus. Frons, clypeus, and labrum impresso- punctate, sides of frons and l
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