62 Mr. K. E. Turner on New Species of 



slightly convex, subcarinate longitudinally at the base. Inter- 

 antennal prominence bilobed ; the front rugose, the vertex punctured. 

 Head much broader than the thorax; rounded at the posterior 

 angles; the posterior ocelli further from the eyes than from each 

 other; antennae about as long as the head, thorax and median 

 segment combined. Thorax punctured, more finely and sparsely 

 on the scutellum than elsewhere, mesopleurae finely rugose; pro- 

 notum shorter than the mesonotum, the anterior margin straight, 

 the angles not prominent. Median segment closely and strongly 

 punctured. First abdominal segment long; the petiole occupying 

 rather more than the basal third of the segment, rather shorter than 

 the basal joint of the hind tarsi; the apical portion moderately 

 swollen, the extreme apex a little constricted; second segment 

 scarcely more than half as long as the first, broadened from the base, 

 longer than the apical breadth ; third segment a little broader than 

 long; basal segment smooth and shining, the remaining segments 

 gradually becoming more strongly punctured; the punctures on 

 the sixth dorsal segment large but rather sparse ; seventh segment 

 smooth at the base, with a few large punctures before the apex, the 

 apical emargination narrow, a little deeper than its apical breadth. 

 Second abscissa of the radius about equal to the third. 



Hab. Nyasaland, Mlanje {S. A. Neave), December to 

 June. 



The female is very near E. heterogamia, Sauss., which 

 occurs in the same district, and may prove to be only a 

 variety of that species, but the difierence in the colour 

 of the legs and abdomen seems to be constant. The nine 

 females in the collection were taken from January to June, 

 seven of them in February, specimens of heterogamia being- 

 taken from December to Jime. The male has the first 

 abdominal segment distinctly more elongate than in 

 clavata, >Sauss., and the colour of the nervures is different. 

 In some specimens of the male the clypeus is wholly black, 

 and in some the yellow mark on the pronotum shows a 

 tendency to disappear. 



Elis (Mesa) erythropoda, Turn. 



Plesia (Mesa) erythropoda, Turn., Ann. and Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. (8), i, p. 505, 1908, $. 

 The type was from Lake Ngami. Mr. Neave has sent 

 a series of the female from Mlanje, taken from January to 

 May. In these specimens the head is more sparsely 

 punctured than in the type. 



