SIMOIDES.—LATHYROPHTHALMUS. 77 
The species is also widely distributed in the Ethiopian Region, 
but seems to be very often confused with some other species 
belonging to the preceding g genus. In the collection there are two 
males and two females from. Durban, 1902 (#. Aur) ; Salisbury, 
S. Rhodesia (G. 4A. K. Marshall) ; Oshogbo, Southern Nigeria, 
x. 1910 (Dr. T. F. G. Mayer); Obuasi, Ashanti, W. Africa, 
x. 1907, ‘‘caught on window” (Dr. W. ML. Graham). 
Genus 14, LATHYROPHTHALMUS, J/7i: (1897). 
I have adopted here for practical purposes the present group, 
which is evidently an artificial one, based only on the spotted eves 
of the male. It contains heterogeneous elements, such as jus 
with bare eyes or with widely separated eyes in the male sex; but, 
asa rule, the eyes are united and densely pilose on the upper half. 
No doubt the naked-eyed species, with conical abdomen, form a 
transition to Simotdes, from which they are distinguished only by 
the spotted eyes. 
The rather numerous species in the collection can be divided into 
five distinct groups, viz.:—(1) Eyes bare, separated in the male ; 
face produced below. (2) Eyes bare, united in the male; face 
produced. (3) Eyes hairy; face produced, with a broad black 
stripe. (4) Eyes hairy; face not produced, with three black 
stripes. (5) Eyes hairy; face less produced, with a yellow tubercle; 
body short and broad. 
] (10) Face very much produced below, almost 
conical; antennal tubercle very 
prominent; third antennal joint 
entirely black, or only narrowly 
yellowish below ; black spots on the 
eyes coalescent, sometimes fused; 
eyes of the males touching for a 
short distance or separate. 
(7) Eyes quite bare; third joint of the 
antenne rounded, wholly black ; 
antennal tubercle and face grey 
pollinose, the facial tubercle black ; 
hind femora rather thick; hind taysi 
black. 
(4) Eyes of the male widely separate as in 
Simoides ; fourth ventral segment of 
the male with a long bilobed appen- 
dage; hind femora yellow on the 
basal half; fourth abdominal seg- 
ment brown or blac ‘k, with the 
whitish hind band alone; thorax 
not Danded.j-sisd- ales elas oyve jarodestus, Wied. 
(3) Eyes of the male united along a shout 
‘line; fourth ventral segment with- 
out appendage. 
(6) Hind femora broadly yellow at the 
base; thorax on the back with a 
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