178 SJOSTEDTS KILIMANDJARO-MERU EXPEDITION. 8: (>. 



Einuenes erythrospila sp. nov. 



Black, the clypeus, labrum, mandibles except at apex, a mark, gradually roundly 

 widened above, over the antenna?, the lower part of the eye-incision, a narrow line on 

 the outer orbits, the basal 4 or 5 joints of the antenna?, basal slope of pronotum, a 

 triangular mark (the narrowed end above) on the base of propleime, more or less of the 

 apex of the scutollum, the sides of metathorax (more broadly on the pleura? than on the 

 metanotum) a broad band on the apical half of the narrowed basal part of the 1st ab- 

 dominal segment and the sides and apex above of the dilated apical part, rufous. Front 

 legs dark red; the middle femora and tibia? tinged with red. Basal two-thirds of the 

 apical joint of the middle tarsi yellow tinged with red. Wings uniformly fuscous-violaceous, 

 the nervures and stigma black. $ and tf. 



Length 2024 mm. $. 



Kilimandjaro: Kibonoto, 1000 1300 m., September. 



Head and thorax closely, but not very coarsely punctured, covered with while 

 pubescence, which is longer on the head than on the mesothorax and longer and 

 denser on the metanotum than on the head. The 3rd joint of the antenna? is almost 

 as long as the following 2 united, these being of almost equal length. Clypeus about 

 one fourth longer than wide, broad, the apex transverse. Hinder ocelli separated from 

 each other by double the distance they are from the eyes. 



The (f i y similarly coloured except that the rufous marks are less extended and 

 may be absent entirely from the abdominal petiole; the red colour on the clypeus is 

 brighter and its sides are more obliquely sloped, more distinctly separated from the 

 centre; it is twice longer than wide, and its apex is somewhat broad and transverse; 

 the basal joints of the flagellum are dark rufous; the hook is black and reaches to the 

 apex of the 9th joint. 



Allied to E. ma.rillosa D. G., which may be known from it by the absence of red 

 from the thorax and abdominal petiole, by the clypeus being shorter and wider, by the 

 basal joints of the antenna? being almost entirely black, by the 2nd and 3rd transverse 

 cubital nervures being roundly curved from the base to the apex, whereas in erythrospila 

 they are straight, oblique and clearly separated at the base from the rest. - - The amount 

 of the rufous colour varies; in the tf it may be almost entirely absent. Characteristic 

 is the yellowish apical joint of the middle tarsi. 



Eumenes Incasia SAUSS. 



Eumenes Incasia SAUSSURE, Vespides, I, 68; BINGHAM, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 X, 1902, p. 220. Zetlms farillaceus WALKER, List. Hyrn. Egyp., 1871, p. 28. 



Kilimandjaro: Kibonoto, 10001900 m., Leitokitok, Steppe. - Merit low lands, 

 Ngare na nyuki, January to October. - Usambara: Mombo. 



A common species extending from Egypt to the Cape of Good Hope. The amount 

 of red on the pro- and metathorax varies as it does also on the 1st abdominal segment; 

 the apex of the latter may be narrowly yellow or more broadly red; the apex of the 



