24 SJOSTEDTS KILIMANDJARO-MERU EXPEDITION. 17: 2. 



ulnar with 6 branches, posterior ulnar simple, 5 axillary veins. Wings redueed, 

 attaining 2"^ abdominal tergite. Opening of scent-glands a circular orifice on the 

 7*'' abdominal tergite. Supra-anal lamina trigonal, posterior border slightly emarginate: 

 sub-genital lamina broad, produced, apex slightly cleft, with two styles asymmetrically 

 placed. Titillator spinous. 



Length of body 8,-2 mm.; length of tegmina 7,5 mm.; pronotum 3 mm. x4 mm. 



Lower Merti: at the river Ngare na nyuki (January), 2 cfc?. 



Oratinoptera variabilis sp. n. 



cT. Rufo-testaceoiis. Head with a castaneous band between the eyes and two 

 spots between the antennal sockets ; antennae testaceous at base ; vertex of head not 

 covered by pronotum. Pronotum trapezoidal, sides deflexed, posterior margin obtusely 

 angled, margins hyaline, disc rufo-testaceous or castaneous variegated with rufo- 

 testaceous. Tegmina lanceolate, reaching the 7*'^ segment, mediastinal area hyaüne, 

 mediastinal vein bi-ramose, 6 costals the last ramose, discoidal field with 5 longi- 

 tudinal sectors. Wings minute, extending to 1^' abdominal tergite. Abdomen rufo- 

 testaceous variegated with castaneoixs, 7**^ tergite cucullate & concealiiig the 8*'^ & 9*'' 

 tergites; the scent-glands open at the base of the supra-anal lamina which is coneave 

 at its base with a median carina, the opening of the glands is fringed with hairs; 

 supra-anal lamina produced, sub-quadrate, not exceeding the sub-genital lamina which 

 is asymmetrical, terminating at apex in a rounded hirsute lobe and with two unequal 

 styles. Front femora on anterior margin beneath armed with a complete row of 

 spines, the more proximal the longer. 



?. Castaneous. Lateral margins of pronotum hyaline, disc somctimes with 

 two or more testaceous maculae, scutellum exposed. Tegmina abbreviated. obovate, 

 not extending beyond the 4*^'' abdominal tergite, 9 costals, anterior ulnar with 4 

 oblique branches, posterior ulnar simple, anal vein impressed reaching sutural margin 

 at a point one-third from the apex. Wings extending to third abdominal tergite, 

 apex infuscated, costal veins obsolete, median vein straight prominent, ulnar vein 

 stout, bifurcated at apex, 1^*^ axillary vein 3-ramose, stout, the first brauch with 3 

 short branches at apex. Abdomen piceous above and below; supra-anal lamina 

 triangulär: apex emarginate, sub-genital plate ample, semi-orbicular. 



c?. Length of body 9,2 mm.; length of tegmina 5,2 mm.; pronotum 3, i mm. x 4 mm. 

 ?. » !> »11 mm.; » » » 5,5 mm.; >' 3 mm. X 4,2 mm. 



KiUmandjaro: Kibonoto 1,000—3,500 metres (Sept.— Nov.), 4 d"^', 3 ??, 8 

 larvae. 



The apex of the abdomen is very similar in construction to that of Ischnopiera 

 bimaculata Gerst. 



J*. var. trniicata nov. 

 Simular to above but tegmina and wings shorter, the former transversely 

 truncate. 1 ?. Lower Meru. 



