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subsequently, the late Mr. Verrall recorded the Oriental sapphirine 
from Aden, and Dr. Speiser has even reported it from Krythraea 
therefore I now think that we have only one species, which is widely 
distributed in the Oriental and Ethiopian Regions, like Paragus 
serratus. 
Eyes with a median brown band only. 
There are in the collection six males and two females from Zun- 
geru, Northern Nigeria, 29. iii 1911 (Dr. J. W.S. Macfie); also a 
male from Durban, 6. vi.1908 (4 Muir). Another male from 
Salisbury, S. Rhodesia (G. dA. K. Marshall), shows below the 
stigma an ill-defined dark yellowish spot, extending over the small 
cross-vein to the fourth vein, like that which I described in 1908 ; 
Dr. Kertész has figured it as characteristic of the male wing in 
Ann. Mus. Nation. Hungar. xi. p. 280, fig. 7@ (1913), but in 
Ethiopian specimens it is often entirely wanting. 
43. Baccha preusta, sp. n. 
2. Length of body 8 to 10 mm., of wing 5 to 7 mm. 
A black species, very like the preceding, but with darker antennas 
and greyish hyaline wings, which have no apical spot, but are only 
narrowly infuscate near the tip. 
Head shining black, with bluish reflexions; frons pale-haired, 
with a transverse whitish band on the depression; antennal tubercle 
rounded and large, rather prominent; no distinct ocellar tubercle ; 
facial tubercle small, but narrow and cariniform ; peristoma linear ; 
face with whitish dusting on the sides; occipital fringe of typical 
shape, white; eyes apparently with the middle band only ; antennz 
short, dark yellow, almost brownish. Thorax and seutellum shining 
black, without any yellow marking, clothed with sparse whitish 
hairs, which are longer and whiter on the mesopleure. Halteres 
and squamulz white, the latter with short white fringe. Abdomen 
with a long stalk and the spatulate portion not very broad; it 
is black, with bluish bands at the base of the third and fourth 
segments, that on the third broader than the other; stalk with 
long erect white hairs on the sides, the hairs elsewhere rather 
long, but darker. Venter black. Legs yellow, with black coxe; 
the tour front femora broadly black at the base, but the extreme 
base yellowish; hind femora black, narrowly yellow at both ends; 
tibize black, broadly yellow towards the base; tarsi black, with 
yellowish first joint. Wings short and rather broad, rounded out- 
wards, uniformly pubescent and therefore greyish hyaline; the 
stigma blackish; the apical infuscation small, but very distinct; 
third and seventh veins almost straight; alula and axillary lobe 
broad; veins black and thick. 
Type Q and four additional specimens trom Obuasi, Ashanti, 
viil—xil. 1907 (Dr. W. AL. Graham). 
? Male. A specimen from Durban, 1903 (7. Muir), seems to 
be the male of the present species. Head, antennz, and thorax as 
in the female. Abdomen with a long stalk, with the spatulate 
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