Galerella flavescens (Bocage, 1889) . J. Sei. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisboa, ser 12, 1:179.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Benguella", [Angola].

DISTRIBUTION: S Angola, C and N Namibia.

SYNONYMS: annulatus Lundholm, 1955; nigratus Thomas, 1928; shortridgei Roberts, 1932.

COMMENTS: Included in sanguinea by Taylor (1975). The form flavescens was not mentioned in Meester et al. (1986) or Watson and Dippenaar's (1987) revision; Crawford-Cabral (1989a) considered nigratus conspecific with flavescens, the senior synonym. Meester et al. (1986) listed nigratus as a synonym of G. pulverulenta .