Neio or Little Known Species of the HemerohiidcB. 447 



flavescent, with the ultimate joints broadening to a spatuliform 

 shape conspicuously hollowed ; the epistome and legs are pale 

 flavescent ; the vertex is either maculated with fuscous, and some- 

 what flavescent, or fuscous maculated with yellow ; the pronotum 

 is usually lighter than the meso- and meta-notum, which are of a 

 drab colour like the abdomen, which has, however, a lateral lighter 

 band on each side, the nervures and nervules of the hyaline wings 

 are flavescent, and the hind margins of both anterior and posterior 

 are very briefly fimbriate. 



From the description I concluded that this species was C. lanceo- 

 latus, Eamb., but in the British Museum Collection I found it 

 identified as C. africanus, Eamb., which McLachlan considers to be 

 scarcely different from C. pluviheus, Oliv., and places C. pallidi- 

 pennis, Eamb., in synonymy with the latter. Now Eambur admits 

 that his C. pallidipcnnis from Senegal is perhaps a variety only of 

 G.2}luviheus, but he mentions also an example from the Cape differing 

 from his C. africanus by the narrower wings and three brown bands 

 on the prothorax. It is the Cape species which I here describe. 



Length of body 28-29 mm. ; of wings expanded 58-69 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Worcester, Stellenbosch), L. P^ringuey ; 

 (Prieska) P. W. Purcell ; (Little Namaqualand) E. M. Lightfoot ; 

 /'Burghersdorp) Dr. D. E. Kannemeyer; (Humansdorp) Eev. J. 

 O'Neil ; King WilUam's Town (E. M. Lightfoot). 



Creageis bechuanus, n. sp. 



<? . Pale flavescent ; wings transparent but with a shght 

 brownish sheen, all the nervures and nervules brown, and without 

 macules or spots ; pterostigma very small, very indistinct and some- 

 what brown ; antennce of nearly the same length as the thorax, 

 brown, spatulate towards the apex, flattened there but hollow 

 beneath ; head pale flavescent with a transverse fuscous patch 

 between the antennae, and on the raised vertex a short median, 

 elongated spot or narrow band along the median groove, and two 

 small macules on each side ; notum yellow, pronotum with three 

 distinct entire fuscous bands ; meso- and metanotum with the 

 median fuscous band and an interrupted lateral band on the meso- 

 sternum and a patch on the metanotum ; sternum flavescent, 

 maculated with fuscous patches ; abdomen very long, luteous ; 

 legs sub-rufescent, anterior tibiae indistinctly annulated with fuscous ; 

 spurs of fore tibiae slightly longer than the others but reaching only 

 to about half the length of the basal tarsal joint, which is elongate. 



