26 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
from Sierra Leone in 1888 (Rev. F. D. Morgan), Sierra Leone 
(J. J. Simpson and W. G. Clements in 1893), Shengay in the 
north Sherbro District of Sierra Leone in 1910 (W. Addison), 
Kokona on March 26th, 1912, Gigbema on August 22nd, 1912, 
Bunbumbo on August 15th and 16th, 1912, and Kamagbouse on 
April 6th, 1912; from Nigeria at Ilorin on June 8rd, 1912, 
Minna during 1911 (J. W. Scott-Macfie), and on October 18th, 
1910 (J. J. Simpson), Oshogbo, in southern Nigeria, in 1910 
(Dr. T. F. G. Mayer) ; from the Congo in 1848 (Dr. Richardson) 
and 1890 (Miss Sharpe); from the Kast Neave has sent several 
females from the Tero Forest, near Buddu, taken at the end 
of September, 1911, at 8800 ft., and near Kumi and Lake Kiogo 
at 3500 ft. in the Uganda Protectorate during the preceding 
August. The Deut. Ent. Museum has it from Togo and the 
Cameroons. 
3. OspRHYNcHoTUS GIGas, Kriech. 
Osprynchotus gigas, Kriech. Mem. Accad. Sc. Bologna, iv. 1894, 
p. 86, female. 
This I believe to be the commonest species of the genus. It 
is described :—Black; head transverse, posteriorly obliquely 
constricted and red with the facial orbits paler, fulvescent ; 
antenne black with scape red, and the eighth to twelfth joints 
pale fulvous; mesonotum rugosely punctate, and not at all red; 
metanotum rugose; scutellum somewhat convex, punctate, 
centrally subglabrous, with the prescutellar lateral lamine red- 
marked; abdomen glabrous and nitidulous, with terebra 12 mm. 
in length; front legs red, with infuscate tarsi; the posterior 
black with a band, occupying about two-thirds of the hind tibie, 
pale flavous; most of the apical half of the hind metatarsi, and 
whole of the second to fourth joints, concolorous; wings dark 
violaceous, with their apices broadly black; a subpellucid mark 
beyond the stigmal base, and three hyaline fenestre in the 
disco-cubital, second recurrent and outer areolar nervure; 
length, 27 mm. Kriechbaumer’s above account is not very 
accessible and was overlooked by Tosquinet; I, consequently, 
give it in extenso from his part of the paper ‘‘ Rassegna degl’ 
Imenotteri Raccolti nel Mozambico dal Cav. Fornasini.”’ 
I have seen a hundred and forty specimens of both sexes (the 
male differs in no way but its paler red capital colour) which 
agree exactly with this description from Abyssinia, British East 
Africa, Uganda, German Hast Africa, Nyassaland, Mocambique, 
Delagoa Bay, north and north-east Rhodesia, Natal; and a 
male in the Rev. T. A. Marshall’s collection which is labelled 
** Senegal,” but several of his African localities were incorrect, 
and the present species seems rare or wanting towards the east 
of the Continent. I have seen both sexes in the Deut. Ent. 
Museum from Three Sisters, near Barberton, in the Transvaal, 
where they occurred during October and December. 
