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we find three rows of bristles, those in the row placed oa the upper surface being 

 directed backward and those of the other two rows forward. There are also some 

 additional bristles near the apex. The fore tibia has a row of ten fairly long 

 bristles at the dorsal side, and near them on the lateral surface a row of about 

 seven ; towards the inner edge an oblique row of about eight is placed, and at the 

 inner edge there are two long and three short bristles. 



The fore tarsus consists of three very short segments, and bears at the apex, 

 besides the pair of unequal claws and a long and some small bristles, two strongly 

 chitinised, short, blunt spines. 



The mid femur and particularly the tibia are very densely setose on the 

 outer, upper aud lower surfaces, and have comparatively very few bristles on the 

 inner side. The proportional lengths of the segments of the mid leg are : 

 trochanter 37, femur 58, tibia oU, first tarsal segment 11, second 14, third 15. The 

 hind leg is much less hairy than the mid leg, the femur and tibia hardly bearing 

 any bristles on the outer and inner surfaces. The tibia has three rows at the dorsal 

 edge, which look much more crowded in our figure than in the specimen, as they 

 diverge in the insect and are necessarily in a plane in the drawing. The pro- 

 portional lengths of the segments are : trochanter 42, femur 85, tibia 69, first 

 tarsal segment 12, second 18, third 16. The claws, which narrow but slightly 

 aj)ically, and are hardly at all curved apart from the base, have blunt tips. 

 Both the mid and hind tarsi bear on the ventral surface of the third segment 

 a single row of four thick, short spines, which are very blunt with the exception 

 of the first, which is curved and pointed. The row is not jjlaced in the centre of 

 the ventral surface, but towards the side of the larger claw. The pseudo-joint 

 of the second segment is only indicated (PI. XIV. fig. 13). 



The bristles of the abdomen are exceedingly numerous on the proximal 

 segments, less so on the posterior ones, and all the tergites have a bare space 

 towards each side. Tergites vii and viii bear a row of long bristles, the seventh 

 sternite has hardly any bristles except at the ajsex, but bears two fairly long ones 

 on each side, one behind the other. 



In the British Museum collection : 



1 ? (adult) from Upper Sheika, British Somaliland, taken off " bats " by 

 R. E. Drake-Brockman on November 25, 1909. 



(I'o be continued.) 



