Annah of tin- Smith African Museum. 



In the first- named species the vibrissae ascend the facial ridges in 

 the manner of the Phoroceratidae, whilst in 8. daripilosa and the other 

 species there are only a few reclining small setae above the large 

 vibrissae. The abdomen in S. quadrata and S. daripilosa reaches its 

 greater width at the second segment ; segments 3 and 4, through 

 being united, form a blackish cone edged by a narrow white or grey 

 band on the anterior part of segment 3. In S. marshalli and 

 S. ruficrura the sides of the abdomen are about parallel, and segment 4 

 is short and transverse, at least in the $ , because the abdomen of the 

 9 assumes the conical shape. 



SERICOPHOROMYA MARSHALL:, n. sp. 



This species, as also the one following, is so near Wmthemia, owing 

 to the parallel shape of the abdomen, the lanuginose villosity limited 

 to the pleurae, the short and directed forwards (descending) frontal 

 setae, and by the absence of marginal setae on the two first abdominal 

 segments in the , that they might be mistaken for that genus. The 

 legs are entirely black as in S. daripilosa Aust. ; the characters already 

 mentioned above separate the two as well as the colour of the 

 abdomen, which is testaceous red on the first two segments and also on 

 the anterior half of the third ; the rest is black, and the extremity of 

 the last segment is red in the $ , and often black in the 9 , which has 

 a short scooped oviduct. The median excavation of segment 1 is 

 black, and from it begins a medio-dorsal band crossing segment 2 ; 

 this band, usually even and somewhat narrow, is often wider in the ? 

 and rarely assumes the triangular shape. The last three segments 

 bear an anterior band of ashy down. The tergum is dusted with 

 flavescent and has four black lines ; the scutellum is testaceous and 

 more obscure at base. The head is of the same shape as the other 

 species, and has a yellowish indumentum ; the hairs on the genae are 

 pale, whereas they are black in S. daripilosa. Wings hyaline ; 

 narrower and hardly reaching the apex of the abdomen in the $ . 



Natal, Durban (H. W. Bell-Marley), S. Afric. Museum ; Umgeui 

 Riv., G-old Coast, Ahuri (W. H. Patterson) ; Uganda (C. C. G-owdey) ; 

 British East Africa (GT. Pugh) ; JSTyassaland, Mt, Mlanje, where it 

 was captured by S. A. Neave in company with 8. danssima Aust. 

 Eutom. Ees. Comm. ; Madagascar and Tananarive (Lamberton). 



I call this species after Mr. G. A. K. Marshall. I had already 

 described it in a note on the Higher Myodarii collected in Madagascar, 

 and which was to be published abroad, but of which I heard nothing 

 since the beginning of the war. 



