22fi SJOSTEDTS KILIMANDJARO-MEEU EXPEDITION. 8: 7. 



about one fourth longer than the next; it is longitudinally reticulated-punctured; the 

 longitudinal reticulations longer below. Thorax fully twice longer than wide; it becomes 

 gradually, slightly, but distinctly narrowed from the lateral tooth; the apex has a steeply 

 oblique slope; ils sides stoutly serrate. The sculpture of the pleura? is hid by the 

 pubescence. Abdomen wider and longer than the thorax; the 2nd segment is broadly 

 rounded at the base, and becomes slightly narrowed towards the apex. Pygiclium clearly 

 defined, the lateral bordering keels distinctly raised and separated; the central part is 

 closely, longitudinally reticulated. The keel on 1st ventral segment is obliquely narrowed 

 upwards from shortly beyond the middle; the basal part has a straight edge; the base 

 of the 2nd projects obliquely sharply downwards, and forms with the apex of the 1st 

 a triangular incision; there is no keel on it; the 1st is broad at the base, with tooth- 

 like lateral angles; the segment does not become much widened towards the apex. 



D. an pliiUs, SM. is a smaller species than this; it has the thorax red above, and 

 it becomes gradually narrowed from the base towards the apex, which is not the case 

 with basilnrta, its head is narrower compared with the thorax; the 2nd abdominal seg- 

 ment longer compared with the width at the base, and narrower compared with the 

 width at the thorax, the abdominal hair marks are distinctly tinged with yellow or ful- 

 vous, not clear white ; and altogether it is a more slenderly built species. 



Dasylabris punctiuoda, sp. uov. 



Black, densely covered with white pubescence, the 2nd and following segments of 

 the abdomen with distinct pubescent bands on the apex; wings hyaline, the nervures 

 black. Head rugosely reticulated, the vertex behind the ocelli less strongly than the rest. 

 Temples shorter than the eyes, not narrowed ; the occiput transverse. Antennae stout, the 

 3rd joint about one quarter longer than the 4-th. Pro- and mesothorax closely, some- 

 what coarsely reticulated, the greater part of the propleime, the base and the apex of 

 the mesopleurre, and more than the basal half of the metapleura?, smooth. Base of 

 thorax bluntly rounded, the sides of pronotum slraighl, oblique; the top of metanotum 

 Iniiisverse, keeled; between the keel and the base are 5 longitudinal keels; the space 

 bounded by the 3rd and 4-th is as wide as that covered by the inner three; the outer 

 area is a little more than half the width of that on its innerside; in the centre of the 

 inner area are 3 transverse keels, the outer area? are stoutly, irregularly reticulated; the 

 apical slope is depressed slightly in the centre; the sides are irregularly reticulated, more 

 strongly above than below; the upper reticulations larger than the lower; on the apical 

 half of the rnetapleurae are 2 rows of arese. Base of 1st abdominal segment smooth, 

 the rest strongly punctured, the punctures deep, round and clearly separated; its ventral 

 surface straight, neither toothed nor keeled; the 2nd closely punctured, as long as it is 

 wide at the base, where it becomes roundly narrowed; its basal segment rounded at the 

 base; the other segments are more closely punctured; the pygidium more coarsely 

 punctured. Calcaria white. Tarsal spines fulvous, tf. Length 8 mm. 



Kilimandjaro : Kibonoto, cultivated region. May. 



