ASARCINA, ~/ 
16. Asarcina minor, sp. n. 
3. Length of body 8 to 8°5 mm., of wing 6 to 6°5 mm. 
Very distinct from ericetorum typica, which has the same 
general coloration, owing to its smaller size, very narrow abdomen, 
flattened and wholly yellow frons, eyes of the male touching along 
a much shorter line, entirely yellow-haired scutellum, and yellow 
tarsi. 
Head as in ericetorum, but wholly yellow; the sides of the face 
very shining and with opalescent reflexions; antenna wholly 
yellow, the third joint only a little darkened above ; eyes touching 
for a very short distance, not longer than the length of the triangle 
formed by the ocelli. Thorax and scutellum as in ericetorum 
typica, but the latter without any black hair, the longer hairs on 
the hind border being also yellow. Coloration and black abdominal 
bands as in ftypica, the first yellow band entire. Legs entirely 
yellow; the four front tarsi entirely yellow, the hind tarsi dark- 
ened towards the tip. Wings with a faint. greyish tinge, a little 
yellowish in the costal cell and stigma ; veins yellowish. 
Type &, from Bende, 8. Nigeria, 23. v.1910 (J. J. Simpson) ; 
another male specimen from Kumasi, Ashanti, 27. x. 1907 (Dr. W. 
M. Graham). 
17. Asarcina ameena, Austen (1909). 
Closely allied to erticetorum, but verging towards the rostrata- 
group on account of the semicircular black mark on superior edge 
of buccal cavity, non-tuberculate frons, distant antennx, and 
differently coloured abdomen. 
A male from British East Africa, near Crater Lake, N. of 
Mount Kenia, 5,700 ft., 15.11.1911 (7. J. Anderson); My. Austen 
described and figured the species from the Ruwenzori Mountains. 
The specimens from Moschi, near Kilimandjaro, German Kast 
Africa, which in 1908 I referred with doubt to fioriz, and Dr. Speiser 
in 1910 to evemophila, certainly belong to the present species. 
18. Asarcina fiorii, Bezzi (1903). 
A small species, very distinct from any other on account of the 
quadrate black spot at the upper edge of the buccal cavity, the 
rounded and less distinct facial tubercle, the whitish sides of the 
face, the reduced black bands on the abdomen, and the very short 
wings. 
The two specimens, a male and a female, are without any doubt 
conspecific with my type from Italy, which was collected in Emilia 
by Prof. A. Fiori, the well-known coleopterologist. 
The undescribed male has the eyes touching for a very short 
distance, as short as in minor; the frons is wholly yellow, pale- 
haired, flattened, and without prominent tubercle ; the antenne are 
distant at the base, and the first joint is elongated as in the female ; 
scutellum black-haired towards hind border; abdomen as in the 
