17(1 BJOSTEDTS KILIHANDJAKO-MEKU EXPEDITION. 8: 6. 



Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. XII (7) 48; SCHLETTERER, Ann. d. 1. Soc. Enl. de Belg. XXXV, 

 29; STADELMANN, Hym. Ost-Afrikas, 34; KOHL, Mittheil. Nat. Mus. Hamb. X, 2. 



Kilimancljaro, Kibonoto, 1300 1900 m.; May. - The thorax and the legs may 

 be suffused with rufous colour; the cloud in the apex of the fore wings varies in depth 

 of colour; one tf has a pale yellow line on the apex of the 2nd abdominal segment. 



Icarici SAUSS. 



Comparatively few species of this genus have been recorded from Africa, but it 

 appears to be well represented in Madagascar. The 3 Masai species may be separated 

 thus: 



A. Stigma black, the scutellum not keeled, the abdominal petiole becoming gradually widened from 

 the base, not narrowed there into a neck. africana. 



B. Stigma pale, the abdominal petiole distinctly narrowed at the back. 



The 4th and following joints of the antennae black; the scutellum not keeled; the coxae, tro- 



chanters and femora black, the apex of clypeus not yellow. nigrofemorata. 



The anlennal joints not black, the scutellum keeled, the legs without black, the apex of clypeus 



yellow. cariiiiscittis. 



Icaria africana sp. nov. 



Dark reddish brown and covered densely with a pale silky pile, the apex of the 

 clypeus somewhat broadly and the apex of pronotum more narrowly pale yellow, as 

 are also more or less of the fore coxae; the apex of the 2nd abdominal segment has 

 a darker coloured yellow border; the antennae and the 4 anterior legs ferruginous, the 

 posterior darker coloured, more blackish. Wings hyaline, the stigma and nervures black ; 

 there is a fuscous violaceous cloud in the radial cellule commencing at the middle of 

 the 3rd abscissa of the radius and extending into the cubital cellules. Scutellum roundly 

 convex, its basal slope keeled. Metanotum with only the central furrow striated, the 

 striae fine. Abdominal petiole elongated pyriform, becoming gradually widened from the 

 base, which is not narrowed ; it is not two-thirds of the length of the 2nd segment, 

 which is bell-shaped and about one fourth longer than it is wide at the apex ; it is very 

 densely pilose. $, length to end of 2nd abdominal segment 12 mm. 



Kilimandjaro: Kibonoto, 1000 1200 m. April. 



Icaria nigrofemorata sp. nov. 



Rufo-testaceous, the abdomen darker coloured, the 4th and following joints of the 

 antennae, the coxae, trochanlers and femora black, the wings clear hyaline, the costa 

 and stigma pale testaceous, the nervures blackish, the radial cellule except for an oblique 

 hyaline cloud commencing at the end of the stigma fuscous; abdominal petiole more than 

 half the length of the 2nd segment, slender, the basal third narrowed; the 2nd segment 

 about one-fourth longer than its width at the apex. Scutellum rounded gradually, not 

 much raised, nor keeled. Metanotum smooth, densely covered with pale silvery pubes- 



