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ditches in fields near Chahala below Ainara. An interesting cai)ture 

 was a mature $ at light in Captain Evans's room at Amai-a on 

 May 18th. 



Kis (Coll. Zool. Selys, p. 585) says that in B. leucosticta the 

 dark postnodal band seems to be wanting in the quite freshly developed 

 6 ; it appears at first as of less extent and as a clear greyish brown 

 cloud, and only attains its definite extent and full colours gradually. 

 It is not altogether clear from the material in hand that the S of 

 B.fuscopalliata passes through precisely the same phases, as in a com- 

 yjaratively teneral condition the dark patches are present altliough not 

 sharply defined nor highly coloured. Our material is also not quite 

 convincing that males occur with almost unmarked wings, although one 

 male which appears to be fairly mature shows mere indications of the 



Fig. 3. - Bmch ijthemis fusco2mlliata. Apex of abdomen of 9 seen from beneath. 



darker patches in the shape of a faint yellowish suffusion out of which 

 the dark venation stands prominent. 



The females much resemble the young males in colour of the body; 

 front and vertex greenish with a blackish line in front of the ocelli ; 

 labium and back of the head vellowish. Thorax olivaceous with rather 

 indistinct median lines, and with forked ante-humeral lines, the outer 

 branch of the fork about half the length of the inner ; lateral sutures 

 narrowly black and vague traces of other dark markings ; legs pale lined 

 with black, the lines on posterior femora and tibiae on the inner side 



