. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 134 Annals of the South African Museum. variable in this species. In the third ^ enumerated above the head is conspicuously smaller than in the others, but still much broader than pronotum and otherwise too quite normally shaped. The fore tibiae have no tympana in .'^, the specimens before me, but in some of them a dis- tinct depression is present at the site in question, though with no distinguish- able tympanum. Genicular lobes of hind legs as in hrevimucronatus (fig. 20), but the spinelets even so
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 134 Annals of the South African Museum. variable in this species. In the third ^ enumerated above the head is conspicuously smaller than in the others, but still much broader than pronotum and otherwise too quite normally shaped. The fore tibiae have no tympana in .'^, the specimens before me, but in some of them a dis- tinct depression is present at the site in question, though with no distinguish- able tympanum. Genicular lobes of hind legs as in hrevimucronatus (fig. 20), but the spinelets even somewhat weaker and smaller, the innermost hardly distinguishable with certainty. Head ferruginous, fasti- gium verticis more or less blackish. Pronotum with a dark median spot and a rather broad transverse black band along fore Fig. 2\.—Henicus monstrosus, ^, lateral and and hind margins. Fol- ^°^fr\/'^^-''^\ ""^^''''^^ ''^^' ^^^^' ^""^^^^ lowing tergites almost en- Abdoelkadir.) . tirely black. Hind knees strikingly pale above, whitish yellow. The ? is very similar to that of hrevimucronatus already described in detail by Griffini ((146), loc. cit., p. 498), but its fastigium verticis a little wider than the first antennal joint, whereas in $ of hrevimucronatus it is hardly as wide as this joint. Moreover, the num- ber of middle tibial spines Fig. 22.—Henicus monstrosus ($ 1878). Sub- is a p-nod charflctpr in genital plate and hind femur. Magnification IS a gooa cnaracter m as in fig. 6 (and 18). both sexes and always distinguishes monstrosus from hrevimucronatus. Finally, I give here a figure (fig. 22) of the ? subgenital plate and preceding sternite (compare it with fig. 20 for hrevimucronatus).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town : The
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