collected near Aden by Col. J. W. Verbury. 421 
hindmargin. Legs similar to those of the male, but the reddish 
markings on the hind femora are often more extensive and more 
conspicuous; the spines on the hind femora are similar but shorter 
and rather less numerous; hind tarsi dilated, but not nearly so 
conspicuously as in the male. 
Length about 8°5 millm. 
S. abyssinica, if a good species, has probably blacker 
hind legs, a not yellow stigma, and not dilated hind tarsi. 
S. bulbus, Walk., from Sierra Leone might be compared. 
13. Syritta fasciata. 
Syritta fasciata, Wied., Auss.-eur. Zweifl., u, p. 103. 
This may be represented by two males and one female 
taken at Haithalhim on March 30th, 1895. The specimens 
represent a small species which seems to agree with 
Wiedemann’s description of what must be the female, 
though Wiedemann does not mention any sex. The 
species may be worthy of a description as minute as I 
have given of S. latitarsata, but as the material is weak 
- and the identification Jess certain, I will only say that the 
female specimen answers well to his description, but 
that the frons is whitish, with the vertex and a cross- 
band above the middle black; in the males the spots 
on the second and third segments of the abdomen are 
much larger, and occupy all those segments except a 
dorsal line and the hindmargin, while in one male the 
spots actually join on the foremargin of the third segment. 
The abdomen of the male is but slightly constricted, the 
third segment being the narrowest; the fourth segment is 
black, rather shining, and rather long, with a small 
whitish spot at each basal corner, and with a brownish- 
yellow hindmargin. The legs of the male may be less 
black than in the female, as although the legs of the one 
female taken by Col. Yerbury would almost agree with 
Wiedemann’s description of being almost all black, yet 
one male has the usual orange band about the middle of 
the hind femora, and the other male has the basal two- 
thirds or more of the hind femora orange. 
Some of the best characters to distinguish this species 
must be its small size, orange antenne, yellow face, and 
comparatively unarmed hind femora. 
