270 SJOSTEDTS KILIMANDJARO-MERU EXPEDITION. 8: 7. 



Mem low lands, Ngare na nyuki. January. 



Clypeus smooth, sparsely weakly punctured above; the face finely, closely, the front 

 and vertex as closely, but more strongly punctured. Pro- and mesonotum closely and 

 more strongly punctured than the head; the scutellum is as strongly, but not so closely 

 punctured as the mesonotum ; it is largely tinged with rufous and has a transverse yellow 

 mark in the centre of the apex; the post-scutellum is much more sparsely punctured; 

 the depressed centre of the apical slope of the metanotum is shagreened, the sides punct- 

 ured, but not so closely as the sculellum. Propleurae finely, closely, obliquely striated; 

 the mesopleune and mesosternum closely, strongly punctured, the punctures running into 

 striae; both are covered with white hair, as are also the cheeks and metalhorax; the 

 mesonotum is covered with shorter, denser, darker pubescence. The 2nd and 3rd 

 abscissae of the radius are equal in length; the 1st transverse cubital nervure is roundly 

 bent; the 1st recurrent nervure is received before the middle, the 2nd quite close to the 

 base of the cellule. 



Philaiithus reticulatus, sp. nov. 



Black, the head below the antennae, between and below them is a mark, with its 

 sides roundly dilated upwards, the top rounded, the prolongations as wide as the trans- 

 verse lower part; above the centre of the antennal space is a small trilobated mark, the 

 lobes rounded, and from them runs laterally a curved line, narrowed on the innerside, 

 the basal half of the mandibles, the lower half of the outer orbits, the top obliquely 

 dilated outwardly, a narrow line on the outerside of the pronotum and a mark below 

 the tegula?, widest in the middle and triangularly narrowed below, yellow; the abdomen 

 orange yellow, the basal slope of the 1st abdominal segment black, the mark with a 

 rounded incision in the middle above. Legs black, the -i anterior femora from shortly 

 behind the middle, the apex of the posterior narrowly and the tibia 1 and tarsi, orange 

 yellow. Wings fuscous, the nervures and stigma black; the 1st transverse cubital nervure 

 obliquely bent towards the top of the 2nd from below the middle; the 2nd abscissa of 

 radius hardly one fourth shorter than the 3rd, the 1st recurrent nervure received in the 

 middle of the cellule. Tegula' yellow, tinged with red in the middle. 



Length 12 mm. 



Kilimandjaro: Kil.onoto, 13001900 m. 24th April. 



Head and thorax rather strongly and closely punctured, covered with short fuscous 

 pubescence, which is longer on the apical slope of the mesonotum; the metanotal area 

 coarsely reticulated, the rest of the melanotum more coarsely punctured than the meso- 

 notum. The scutellum is less closely punctured than the latter. Propleurae smooth, 

 striated in the centre; the mesopleurae more strongly punctured than the mesonotum, the 

 punctures running into reticulations; the metapleurae closely reticulated. 1st abdominal 

 segment closely, distinctly, but not strongly punctured; the 2nd more weakly punctured, 

 more strongly towards the apex, the others almost smooth, the last with a semicircular 

 incision. 



