﻿On the Boiiihijliul Fauna of Soiifh Africa {Blptera). 105 



at a right angle, afterwards bent at right angle and the)-e with the 

 cross-vein uniting it to the second longitudinal vein ; the rest is 

 strongly S-shaped. Middle cross-vein on the middle of the discoidal 

 cell ; first posterior cell as broad at end as at base ; second posterior 

 cell in the shape of a regular rhoinb ; discoidal cell small and acute, 

 its terminal cross-vein being S-shaped and oblique ; stalk of the anal 

 cell long. 



Systropus snowi, Adams (1905). 



A male example fi-om Zululaud, M'Fongosi, May, 1916 (W. E. 

 Jones). 



An example seen and named l)y Adams from Salisburv (June, 1911), 

 S. Rhodesia, is in the collection. 



SiiHFAMiLY TOXOPHORINAE. 



TOXOPHORA, Meig. 



Illig. Mag. f. Insect., ii, p. '270, 1803. 

 The species may be distinguished as follows : 



1. (2) Wing's devoid of ti distinct fiisoons pattern, only with a faint yellowish 



tint on the fore half ..... maculata. 



2. (1) Wings more or less infuscated, sometimes witli the fore half black, 



and iisually with dark spotted cross-veins. 



3. ((5) Winys faintly infuscated, with very striking dark spotted cross- 



veins, 

 ■i. (Ô) Cross-veins Ijroadly infuscated in the shape of rounded spots of 

 greater size ...... pHnctipennis, Bezz. 



5. (-i) Cross-vein not so nuich spotted . . . diploptera, Speis. 



6. (3) Wings with the fore half blackish, the cross-veins being thus included 



in the general suffusion . . . cacruleivent ris, Karsch. 



TOXOPHORA MACULATA, Kossi (1790). 



A male from Van Wyh's Vlei, Cape Colony, 1875, is the first authentic 

 specimen wdiich I have seen from Africa of this Mediterranean species. 

 It lunl been already reconled from the Cape by Loew. 



ToxOPHORA PUNCTIPENNIS, Bczzi. 



Closely allied to the preceding species, but distinct by the absence 

 of white scales on the outer side of the antennae, and chiefly by the 

 three rounded, blackish spots on the cross-veins. 



