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Pro It fist a Kirkaldy. 



\^\r. Distant has persisted in s}-nonymizing this with Phciiicc, 

 hut the two are diiYerent. In Proutista the clypeus is distinctly 

 longer than the frons ; while in Phcnicc the frons is longer than 

 the clyiK'us, or. at least, not shorter ; and the venation of the wing 

 is much simpler in the Aethiopian genus than in the Australasio- 

 Oriental one. h^jrnierly I was willing to adopt Mr. Distant's 

 views, as I have never seen a Phcnicc. and it was possible that 

 the figures of I)oheman and Westwood might be somewhat inac- 

 curate, but Mr. Distant's own figures, in the "Fauna of India" and 

 "Insecta Transvaaliensia." drawn by the same careful artist in 

 each case, of "Plioiicc inocsfa" and of '^Phcnicc ahdominalis," 

 show that I was justified in my original contention that Proutista 

 is not a synonym of Phcnicc. G. W. K.] 



I'ntil 1 can examine African specimens of Plicnicc I shall re- 

 tain the genus Proutista. It is verv distinct from allied genera 

 (excluding Phcnicc which I have not examined) in the reduction 

 of the female genital styles, which are represented by minute tu- 

 bercles. In this genus the cubitus has two branches and the 

 media five or six simple sectors, the median cross-vein being near 

 base of first sector so that the cubitus appears as three veined and 

 the media to have but four sectors.* Hind tibiae without basal 

 and submcdian s])ine. There is a large grou]) of species of similar 

 facies to iiiocsta and hunholtzi which will only be finally straight- 

 ened out by a study of the genitalia. Some of the following 

 species may prove to be synonymous, but I must leave it to those 

 who have the original types to describe or figure the genital 

 organs. 



(1) P. himholtzi Kirk. 



A. S. E. Belg. (1007) LI 126. 



Aledio-vcntral QiV^*^' of pygoi)hor ])r(iduced into a ])aralk'logram- 

 ical i)roccss. longer than broad, the sides and ai)ex being slightly 

 concave, in jirofile the base i)rojecting: lateral edges slightly 

 rounded ;anal segment long, bent downward at rightangles l)efore 

 the middle, the basal, straight portion sub])arallelsided. length 

 about three times the breadth, anus one-third from base, the distal 

 bent portion forming a long, finelv-pointed s])ine ; styles j^rojecting 

 to bend in anal segment, breadth slightly more than half the 

 length, margins rounded. a])ex ])roduced into a fincly-i)ointcd, in- 



* Westwood's figure of Phenice fanriolnta shows five median sectors, tlu' liist 

 furrate; the costa. subocsta and general shape of tegmina also differ in these two 

 genera. 



