252 SJOSTEDTS KILIMANDJABO-MEBU EXPEDITION. 8: 7. 



Meru low lands, Ngare na nyuki. 25th November.. 



The inetathorax in successor is short and rounded broadly at the apex. 



Ponipilus kilimandjaroensis, sp. nov. 



Black, the head dark red, darker, almost black at the ocelli, the basal 8 joints of 

 the antenna? red, the apical black; wings uniformly fuscous violaceous, the nervures black, 

 the 2nd abscissa of radius fully one fourth longer than the 3rd, the recurrent nervures 

 are received beyond the middle, the 1st nearer the apex than the 2nd, the apical ab- 

 scissa of radius straight, oblique; the 1st transverse cubital nervure roundly curved, the 

 3rd with the anterior half obliquely bent towards the 2nd; the transverse median nervure 

 interstitial; the accessory nervure in hind wings interstitial. Eyes slightly converging 

 above. Hinder ocelli separated from each other by a little greater distance than they 

 are from the eyes. Temples very narrow, almost obsolete; the occiput not quite trans- 

 verse. $. - Length 17 mm. 



Kilimandjaro: Kibonoto, cultivated zone, 1300 1900 in. May. 



The 3rd antennal joint is about one fourth longer than the following. Head a little 

 wider than the thorax. Prothorax roundly narrowed in front, roundly incised at the apex. 

 Metanotum smooth, its apex, seen from above, transverse, the slope straight, oblique. 

 Tibial spines longish; the fore metatarsus witli 2 or 3 short spines, the spurs with a 

 longish stout basal process. Apical abscissa of radius almost as long as the preceding 

 2 united. The long spur of hind tibia? half the length of metatarsus. 



Pompihis Bretonii, GUER. 



Magas. de Zool. XIII, 114, 4, PI. 115, fig. 2; KOHL, Denkschr. d. Mathem.-Natur- 

 wiss. Klasse d. Kaiser. Akad. d. Wissen., 1906, 100. -- Merit low lands: Ngare na nyuki, 

 October. 2 examples of this wide-ranging African Species. 



Characteristic of this species is the fact that the 2nd transverse cubital nervure is, 

 posteriorly, bent angularly towards the 2nd recurrent nervure. 



Pompihis vindicatiis SMITH (Cat. Hym. Ins., Ill, 142, 118), from "Port Natal and 

 Congo", appears to me to be identical with P. Bretonii, so far as one can make out 

 from the description. I have it (named by SMITH himself) from the Cape. 



Fompilus 2 anomalopterus, sp. nov. 



Entirely black, the abdomen slightly tinged with blue, the wings uniformly fuscous 

 violaceous, the transverse median nervure received distinctly beyond the transverse basal; 

 the 2nd abscissa of radius not quite one fourth shorter than the 3rd; the 1st recurrent 

 nervure received distinctly beyond, the 2nd very slightly before the middle; the accessory 

 nervure in hind wings shortly before the cubitus. Eyes converging slightly above; the 

 hinder ocelli separated from the eyes by about one half more the distance they are from 

 each other. Long spur of hind tibia? about one fourth the length of the metatarsus. 

 Claws with a distinct triangular tooth. Tibia? minutely, sparsely spined; the apex of the 



