20i SJOSTEDTS KILIMANDJARO-MERU EXPEDITION. 8: 7. 



similar bands on the apical half of the 3rd; the pubescence on the upper part of the 

 head, thorax and abdomen black; on the cheeks, basal slope of pronotum, pleurae and 

 ventral surface and sides of abdomen sparser, longer and white. Base of thorax quite 

 transverse, the apex more bluntly transverse; the sides straight, crenulated, a blunt tu- 

 bercle before the middle. Ventral keel with a large, bluntly rounded tooth at the base. 

 The hair on the coxa? and femora white, on tibiae black in front, white on sides and 

 apex; the calcaria black. $. 



Length 15 mm. 



Kilimanjaro: Kibonoto, cultivated region, April. 



Head closely, coarsely rugosely punctured-reticulated; temples as long as the eyes, 

 slightly roundly narrowed, the hinder edges rounded. Top of metanotum crenulated; the 

 upper third of apical slope stoutly striated. The 2nd ventral segment strongly, closely 

 punctured, unthoothed. The reticulations on the temples are longitudinal; their outer 

 edges keeled. 



Differs from M. zimrada by the outer edges of the temples being sharply angled, 

 by the reticulations being distinctly longitudinal, while in zimrada they are coarser and 

 transverse, and only the lower fourth of the pleurae is black, the top of the metanotum 

 and the upper part of the apical slope are red, not black; in the present species the 

 basal tooth on the basal ventral segment is smaller and there is none on the apex. 



M u< ilia Mackayi, sp. uov. 



Black, the pro- and mesonotum, the pleurae and a broad band round the top and 

 sides of the apical slope of metanotum, red; a spot of pale fulvous pubescence on the 

 apex of the 1st abdominal segment, near the outer edge and a wide band of similar 

 pubescence on eitherside of the third segment; the head, upper part of thorax and of 

 the abdomen somewhat thickly covered with black hairs ; the pleurae and ventral surface 

 of abdomen with longer white hair, there being also some longish white hair on the 

 basal segment of the abdomen. Head narrower than the thorax, which is truncated at 

 the base and apex, is not twice longer than wide and bears laterally on the central two- 

 thirds 4 blunt tubercles, of which the 1st and 3rd are smaller than the others. Ab- 

 domen wider than the thorax, its base broad, bordered, not projecting laterally; the 

 ventral keel not toothed, roundly, broadly curved. Legs covered with white hair; the 

 tibial spines and calcaria black. . 



Length 12 mm. 



Meru low lands, December. 



Head coarsely reticulated. Flagellum stout, brownish beneath, its 2nd joint not 

 much longer than the 3rd. Mesonotum longitudinally reticulated, the reticulations long, 

 becoming wider towards the apex; the apical slope reticulated round the edges, the cen- 

 tral part (except below in the middle) finely punctured, the punctures clearly separated. 

 Pleurae smooth, except for 2 rows of round punctures on the top of the metapleurae. The 

 1st abdominal segment on the basal slope, with a broad band of punctures of moderate 



