240 SJOSTEDTS KILIMANDJARO-MERU EXPEDITION. 8: 7. 



widened below, the lower edge obliquely rounded; broad bands, widened laterally, on 

 the basal 5 abdominal segments, one on the 6th, narrower on the middle, the sides 

 broadly, squarely dilated backwards to near the middle of the segment, and a triangular 

 spot near the apex of the 7th, the narrowed end at the base, broad bands, incised in 

 the middle, at the base, on the 2nd to 5th ventral segments, and one, not incised, on 

 the 6th, bright sulphur-yellow; the legs of a paler yellow, the coxae above, trochanters 

 and the femora black, the apices of the larsal joints rufous; wings clear hyaline, the 

 stigma rufo-testaceous, the nervures black, the 2nd abscissa of radius about one fourth 

 longer than the 3rd; the 1st transverse cubital nervure broadly, roundly curved, the 3rd 

 obliquely sloped, posteriorly rounded, straight from below the middle in front; the 1st 

 recurrent nervure is received close to the apex of the cellule at about the same distance 

 as the 2nd is from the base; in the hind wings the transverse anal nervure is shorter 

 than the space between it and the base of the cubitus. cA 



Length 13 mm. 



Meru low lands, Ngare na nyuki. 



Head and metanolum closely and somewhat strongly punctured; the mesonolum 

 closely punctured laterally, the sides of the scutellum more finely, but not so closely 

 punctured; the pleurae are more closely and finely punctured. 



The african species of Plesia stand in need of a thorough revision. The present 

 species may be known from G-fasr/fita by the presence of a spot on the pleurae, by the 

 2nd transverse cubital nervure being broadly, roundly curved, by the 1st recurrent ner- 

 vure being received at a greater distance from the apex of the cellule, in comparaision 

 with the distance the 2nd is received from the base, and the transverse anal nervure in 

 the hind wings is equal in length with the basal abscissa of the cubilus, not longer 

 than it as in G-fasciata. 



Myzine (Meira) rufitarsis, sp. nov. 



Black, shining, the front and vertex broadly, the apex of the 4th abdominal seg- 

 ment broadly, the greater part of the 5th and the whole of the 6th, the 3rd ventral in 

 the middle and the following entirely, and the mandibles broadly in the middle, bright 

 red; the flagellum of antenna? of a paler, the knees, apex of tibiae and the tarsi of a 

 deeper, darker red, wings light fuscous hyaline, the costa and stigma black, the nervures 

 dark fuscous; the 2nd cubital cellule shorter than its pedicle, both the nervures roundly 

 curved, the 2nd more so than the basal; the 1st recurrent nervure interstitial; on the 

 sides of the 2nd abdominal segment is a transverse while spot, its apex gradually roundly 

 narrowed from the inner to the outer side, on the 3rd is a somewhat similar, but 

 smaller and more irregular spot. tf. - Length 7, 5 mm. 



Merit low lands, 29th December. 



Smooth and shining, the head, thorax and legs somewhat thickly covered with 

 longish, stiff white hair; the calcaria and tarsal spines stiffer, thicker, white, tinged with 

 red; the spurs pale reddish; the tarsal spines long; the long spur of tibire nearly as long 



