312 AiniKh of f],,- South African Mnseiiin. 



light olivaceous, shading to whitish on metepimeroii and ventral 

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



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

 Abdomen olivaceous, dorsally bronze black, the black l)ands being 

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

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

 A* proximal to Ciiq by a little more than the length of Ci<(/ ; 

 pterostigma ochreous. 



(J, Abd. 27, hdw. 19c, (Sclys), to 31, 21-6 mm., M'Fongosi, Zululand. 

 ? , 30-5, 22. 



This form has been described by SjiJstedt as a subspecies of 

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

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

 De Sclys had doubtfully regarded his specimen from Natal as belonging 

 to yrmetum. What remains of the type jjunctum appears different, 

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

 massaicum as a distinct species. 



PsEUDAGRioN SjosTEDTi (Forster, 1906). 



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

 Neave) ; 1 J.Edjai, Ashantee, Gold Coast (31.1.1913, Dr. J. J. 

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

 (iii.1905, G. A. K. Marshall). Mus. Tervuereu : 1 S, Katwamba 

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



($ . Occiput dull greyish ochreous. Labium whitish. Head 

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

 genae, frous 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 pruinose, 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 

 frons, 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 jjruinose ; metepisternum and 

 a narrow ventral border on metepisternum dull brown (in both 

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



