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reviewed bv Mr \V. L. Sci.ater. Gkant named his East Africaii 

 spécimens brachyptcrus and showed that little reliance can be 

 placed on the wing nieasurcnients as a differentiating character. 

 Doiibtless he is correct in tliis l)ut as Rkichknow bas named the 

 E]ast African form I shall keep it iip and recognise the follovving 

 siibspecies : the range of T. paivus parvus <xnà. T. parvus brachyp- 

 tcrus appears to overlap, moreover the characters are not verv 

 reliable, considérable variation having been shown in both colour 

 and wing measurenient. 



1. — Tachynantks parvis pakvus. 



Cypselus parva Licht., \'erz. Doubl., 1823, p. 58 : Nubia. 



Range. — Abvssinia, White Nile, Sudan, Northern Nigeria 

 (Lake Chad\ Sénégal, Gambia, Gold Coast hinterland. 



Distini>iiis/iiiig characters. — Verv pale monse-colour, throat 

 whitish and dislinctlv streaked. 



2. — Tachynantes parvus brachypterus. 



Cf. supra. 



Range. — Sierra Leone, Libéria, Gold Coast, N. and S. Nigeria, 

 Cameroon, Gaboon, Fernando Po, N. Belgian Congo, N. Angola, 

 Renguella. 



Distinguishing characters. — General coloiir darker but subject 

 to considérable variation. 



3. — Tachynantes parvis myochrous. 



('.\psclus myochrous Keichw. J. 1". O., 1S86, p. 116; Karema, 

 Tanganvika Terri tory. 



Range. — Represented in the British Muséum from Kenya 

 Colonv, Tanganvika Territorv, Nvasaland, Zanzibar, Uganda, N. 

 Damaraland. 



