EUMERUS. E413) 
Type 3,2 single specimen from Obuasi, Ashanti, West Africa 
11. xi. 1907, “ caught in bush” (Dr. W. ML. Graham). 
122. Eumerus fee, Bezzi (1912). 
Readily distinguishable, owing to the breadth of the yellow 
margin of the scutellum and to the narrowness of the frons of the 
female ; thoracie stripes and abdominal lunule well marked. 
This species, recently described by me from Fernando Po and 
the French Congo, seems to be widely distributed in West Africa. 
A male and three females from Obuasi, Ashanti, “‘ caught on bush 
and flowers,” vil—xi. 1907 (Dr. W. MW. Graham); a female from 
Oshogbo, 8. Nigeria, 20-30. ix.1910 (Dr. T. F. G. Mayer); a 
female from Tinian, S. Nigeria (Capt. Leslie) ; and a male from 
Zomba, Nyasaland (D7. iT ye Stannus). The last-mentioned 
specimen has the antenne, face, and smaller genitalia reddish ; it 
probably belongs to a distinct species. 
123. Eumerus axinecerus, Speiser (1910). 
Distinguished by its antennz and fore legs being red, and by 
the abdomen being more or less red at the sides near the base. In 
my table of 1912 I placed this species among those in which the 
abdomen is black; usually, however, the sae colour, as deseribed 
by the author is quite distinct; it seems to be distinguished from 
lunatus owing to the colour of the legs, in which only the knees 
are reddish. 
A pair from Durban, Natal (#1. AZwir). 
124. Eumerus quadrimaculatus, Macquart (1855). 
I refer with some doubt to this species two males from Blantyre, 
Nyasaland Protectorate, 20.iv.1910 (Dr. J. E. S. Old). The 
species represented by the specimens before me seems to be allied 
to the foregoing, and is very different from that recorded under 
the same name by Prof. Hervé-Bazin, Rev. Zool. Afric. iii. 1913, 
p. 78. Except for the fact that the femora are rather swollen, I 
should have referred the present specimens to £. beguaerti, H.-B. 
125. Eumerus triangularis, Herve-Bazin (1913). 
A very distinct species owing to its very broad and flattened, 
almost glabrous hind legs, its entirely bare eyes, and the peculiar 
shape of the second antennal joint. 
The shape of the hind legs in this species is similar to that 
seen in erythrocerus ; the front ocellus is distant from the other 
two ocelli; the second antennal joint is prolonged as a long lamella 
on the inner side of the last joint, muchas in the species of Ptecticus 
or of Synxtormon; the abdomen is rather elongate and narrow, even 
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