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tlioiax with flatly convex sides wibhout liairs excepl two long oues in each postero- 

 lateral angle; other liairs along tlie nearly straight posterior margin; entire segmcnt 

 black brown. ]Metathorax with dorsuni extending as a sort of flap or lobe posteriorly 

 over the first part of second abdominal segment; this lobe deeply angularly emargina- 

 ted at middle of posterior margin ; postero-lateral angles each with group of four or 

 five Short spines and two or three long hairs, a Single long hair rising from eaeh of 

 the two postero-median angles made by the emargination; entire segment blackish- 

 brown. Abdomen with nearly parallel sides from first to eight Segments; segments 

 2 to 6 with many short strong spines along lateral margins and in postero-lateral 

 angles; segments 7 to last with very long hairs rising from postero-lateral angles; all 

 Segments except last two with lateral and separate median transverse brown blotciies 

 last two segments almost wholly brown. 

 Kilimandjaro : Kibonoto and Useri. 



('ol|M)(T|)liiiluiii ornas n. sp. 



(IM. 7. %. .s.) 



Numerous males and females from Herodias alba, EpJdppiorhynchus senegalen.sis 

 and the dove Aplopelia larvata (straggler?). In shape and general markings much like 

 Piaget's zebra from Ciconia alba, biit male with posterior end of abdomen (|iiite dif- 

 ferent and female with noticeable differences in the markings. 



Male, length 2.i m.m., width Q.m m.m.; rather long head, body very narrow 

 at suture between pro- and mesothorax, posterior margin of abdomen broadly truncate, 

 even a little eoncave, and body nearly wholly covered and colored by the dark-brown 

 transverse abdominal bands. Head, length 0.5 mm., width O.ßt; mm.: cl3'peal front 

 flatly rounded. ocular emarginations deep, temples broad and angular. oceipital margin 

 eoncave; strong black ocular blotches connected by broad black-brown longiludinal 

 bands with larger black oceipital blotches. Prothorax with strongl}' ]iroduced lateral 

 angles bearing three spines; two strong hairs on each postero-lateral angle; whole 

 segment pale brown; suture between pro- and mesothorax very narrow. Metathorax 

 with sides rapidly diverging posteriorly, and bearing a series of about 8 short spines; 

 one strong spiny hair in each postero-lateral angle; whole segment brown, paler 

 anteriorly. Abdomen tapering a little posteriorly, with last segment broadly truncate, 

 even a little eoncave beliind; numerous spiny haü's along lateral and posterior margins 

 of segments, and single very long hairs arising from postero-lateral angles: all seg- 

 ments broadly banded transversely with brown, leaving only the sutural spaces uncolored. 



Feituile, with head and thorax hke male, but abdomen tapering more sharply 

 from before back; widest at segment 3; posterior segments very narrow, the whole 

 abdomen giving the Impression of great slenderness and of being pointed posteriorly: 

 transverse abdominal bands entirely crossing segments 1 and 2, but broken in two 

 in the middle on segments 3 — 8 leaving an luicolored space in the center of which 

 appears a small quadrangular blotch, paler than the lateral blotches; last segment 

 with narrowly rounded posterior margin thickly set with spines and sliort hairs. 



Kilimandjaro-Merii: Natron Lakes. 



