19i SJOSTEDTS KILIMANDJARO-MERU EXPEDITION. 8: 6. 



Covered with a grey pile. Metapleura? irregularly weakly reticulated above, the rest some- 

 what strongly aciculated; the sides of the lower part forming whitish ridges, the top form- 

 ing a small, the lower part a longish tooth, the part between the 2 teeth being roundly curved. 



Odyiierus (Nortonia) raaculiscapus sp. nov. 



Black; the head, thorax and base of abdomen densely covered with long fuscous 

 pubescence; the underside of the antenna?, the base of the scape and of the 3rd joint 

 also above, the greater part of the prothorax, the rufous colour on the pleura* triangular, 

 extending below the middle but not extending to the apex, the tubercles and tegula-, 

 rufous; the apex of the 1st abdominal segment above, and of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4-th 

 all round, the apical 2 lines narrower, the 2nd wider than the basal, lemon-yellow. Wings 

 highly iridescent, hyaline, fuscous violaceous towards the apex, the stigma testaceous, 

 the nervures yellow, tinged with rufous; clypeus as wide as long, the apex with a shallow 

 rounded incision. Middle of mandibles broadly pale testaceous. Hind coxa? with a short 

 rounded tooth shortly above the middle on the outerside. o 71 . Total length 8 mm. 



Kill in niidj(t i-o: Kibonoto, 1300 1900 in., 25lh September. 



A rather slender species with the base of abdomen distinctly if shortly petiolated, 

 the apex of post-scutellum obliquely narrowed towards the centre and the apical slope 

 of the metanotuin bordered by a keel, which curves downwards in the middle above. 

 1st abdominal segment longish cup-shaped, rounded at the base above; the 2nd is longer 

 than it, is wide at the apex; its base depressed. The anlennal hook barely reaches to 

 the base of the llth joint. Coxre and greater part of the trochanters black. Base of thorax 



not quite transverse. 



Nortonia striativentris sp. nov. 



Black, 2 irregular marks on the sides of the clypeus, the upper the larger and 

 separated from the lower by a narrow oblique black line, the lower becoming obliquely 

 widened on the innerside to the middle, then obliquely narrowed below, the lower part 

 being narrower than the upper; narrow lines on the apices of the basal 3 abdominal 

 segments all round, a narrower one on the top of the ilh and a longish, wide line on 

 the outerside of the hind tibia?, pale yellow; wings smoky violaceous, the nervures and 

 stigma black; tegula? black. Post-scutellurn with a steep slope, the apex rounded broadly. 

 Upper outeredge of melanolum broadly margined. Clypeus as wide as long, the apex 

 with a deep, wide, semicircular incision; the sides forming teeth, which become gradu- 

 ally narrowed towards the apex. Base of thorax transverse. 1st abdominal segment 

 cup-shaped; the base forming a short, but distinct petiole; the 2nd is as wide as long, 

 below closely longitudinally, distinctly striated, a 71 . - Length (total) 12 mm. 



Kilim(in<lj<t)-o: Kiboscho, 30004000 m., February. 



Head, thorax and base of abdomen densely covered with longish white pubescence, 

 closely punctured, more or less reticulated on the mesonotum and, more distinctly, on 

 the apical slope of the metanotum. 1st abdominal segment irregularly, longitudinally 

 reticulated-striated; the back of the 2nd finely, closely longitudinally striated, the stria? 

 more or less interlacing. 



