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light olivaceous, shading to whitish on metepimeron and ventral 

 surface ; black markings as in male, but reduced in size. 



Legs very light ochreous, femora lined with black laterally, pruiuose. 

 Abdomen olivaceous, dorsally bronze black, the black bauds being 

 considerably narrower than in the male ; on segment 2 a very narrow 

 lanceolate black spot ; clorsum of segments 8-9 black, 10 olivaceous. 

 A* proximal to Cuq by a little more than the length of Cuq ; 

 pterostigma ochreous. 



(J, Abd. 27, hdw. 19'5 (St'lys), to 31, 21-5 mm., M'Fongosi, Zululand. 

 9 , 30-5, 22. 



This form has been described by Sjostedt as a subspecies of 

 P. punctum, Ramb. (from Mauritius). We have compared one of 

 Sjostedt's type-specimens and also the mutilated type of punctum. 

 De Si'lys had doubtfully regarded his specimen from Natal as belonging 

 to punctum. What remains of the type pimctum appears different, 

 and at the present state of our knowledge it seems safest to consider 

 massaicum as a distinct species. 



PSEUDAURION SjosTEDTi (Forster, 1906). 



Brit. Mus. : 1 cJ, Lualaba Eiver, 2500-4000 ft, (7 . v . 1907, S. A. 

 Neave) ; 1 ^,Edjai, Ashantee, Gold Coast (31. i. 1913, Dr. J. J. 

 Simpson). Coll. E. B. Williamson: 4 $, Salisbury, Mashonaland 

 (iii.1905, G. A. K. Marshall). Mus. Tervueren : 1 <J, Katwamba 

 (10 . xi . 1911, Dr. Bequaert). 



. Occiput dull greyish ochreous. Labium whitish. Head 

 anteriorly brick-red, and so are the labrum, auteclypeus, postclypeus, 

 genae, frons to somewhat beyond the anterior ocellus, base of antennae 

 and anterior two-thirds of eyes. Posterior part of frons and vertex 

 blackish, a moderately broad border of large, round, reddish or 

 ochreous postocular spots ; a yellowish line across the occipital margin. 

 Prothorax black, whitish pruiuose, marked red, the sides rather broad ; 

 large round dorsolateral spots and a medial line, the posterior lobe 

 erect, narrow, faintly tripartite. Thoracic dorsum red (more dull than 

 frous, but perhaps the shade is the same in the living insect) ; narrow 

 (Lualaba) or slightly broader (Gold Coast) black line on median 

 suture ; black band on humeral suture at dorsal end slightly enlarged 

 medially (Lualaba), or medially and laterally (Gold Coast), very narrow 

 (Lualaba) or but slightly narrower than ante-humeral red stripe (Gold 

 Coast). Sides dull olivaceous, whitish pruinose ; metepisteruum and 

 a narrow ventral border on metepisteruum dull brown (in both 

 specimens, though possibly caused by post-mortem decomposition). 



