. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 576 Annals of the South African Museum. J A. silvicola, n. sp. $ . 3-4-3'8 mm. Head dark reddish-brown, thorax and petiole piceous, abdomen black, tarsi brownish-yellow, fiagellum and scapes brown, the basal two-thirds of the latter dark ochreous. Legs, petiole and abdomen shining, the rest of the body dull. Pilosity yellowish, long, exserted, fairly abundant all over including the legs and scapes, present also on the edge of the scale, longest and most plentiful on the head and abdomen. A scanty and
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 576 Annals of the South African Museum. J A. silvicola, n. sp. $ . 3-4-3'8 mm. Head dark reddish-brown, thorax and petiole piceous, abdomen black, tarsi brownish-yellow, fiagellum and scapes brown, the basal two-thirds of the latter dark ochreous. Legs, petiole and abdomen shining, the rest of the body dull. Pilosity yellowish, long, exserted, fairly abundant all over including the legs and scapes, present also on the edge of the scale, longest and most plentiful on the head and abdomen. A scanty and decumbent pubescence on the man- dibles, fiagellum and legs. Head, pronotum, epinotum and dorsum of the meso-metanotum very finely and densely granulate, the sides of the meso-metanotum sharply and longitudinally striate, the lower angles and margin of the epinotum smooth and shining. Scale smooth. Abdomen microscopically reticulate, finely punctured. Head, including the closed mandibles, subcircular, a trifle longer than wide. Eyes very. Fig. 57.—Acantholep/s silvicola, n. sp. large, placed just in front of the middle of the sides. Clypeus convex, its anterior margin arcuate, sharply carinate in the middle over the anterior two-thirds of its length. Mandibles G-dentate, finely and closely striate. The scapes extend beyond the hind margin of the head by a little less than half their length. Head one-third wider than the pronotum. The latter is two-thirds wider than long, distinctly flattened above, its sides very convex. The thorax is sti'ongly constricted at the mesonotum, which is barely half as wide as the pronotum and about as wide as long. Metanotum widened posteriorly, two-thirds as long in the middle as the mesonotum, separated from the latter by a wide and deep depression. Metanotal stigmata very prominent, sub- conical when seen in profile. Meta-epinotal suture deep. The dorsum of the epinotum rises abruptly and vertically from the suture, and is thence continued ba
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