ZOOLOGY 46^ 



Myrmeleonid.i<:. 



Falpures indemens, Walker Wadelai. 



C i/mothales johnstoni, Kirby, sp. n. 



Long. enp. 33 millim. ; long, antenn. 13 millini. ; long. al. ant. 40 niillini. ; long, al., 

 post. 43 millim. 



Female. Body almost uniform pale yellow ; antennal tubercles and the space between 

 the antenna?, blackish ; antenna? long, slender, filiform, the last joint blackish, and 

 l)ointed, vertex transverse, raised, with a rounded elevation on each side, between which 

 and the eye is a blackish spot. Pronotum about twice as long as broad, gradually 

 widened behind, a brown line on each side at the base, parallel, and another pair . 

 diverging towards the extremity ; a black irregular band interrupted at the sutures 

 passes from the back of the pronotum over the middle of the meso- and meta-notum ; 

 the pleura is also marked with a broad black line. Abdomen with slender and in- 

 complete brown or blackish lines in the back and on each side ; it is densely clothed 

 with short hair, especially towards the extremity. Front legs pale yellow, femora 

 thickly clothed with longer black hair and raised slender bristles on tlae apical half ; 

 tibia? with three rows of a very few long, slender diverging black bristles ; terminal 

 spines of equal length, and extending to the third tarsal joint ; the remaining legs 

 wanting. Wings hyaline, brilliantly iridescent, with a pink shade in some lights, and 

 irregularly varied with pale ochraceous, esi)ecial]y towards the marginal area of the 

 apical third. Fore wings very slender at the base, very broad at two-thirds of their 

 length, and obtusely pointed. Many of the cross nervules in the costal area are double 

 at their base, where they are marked with a pale ochraceous spot. Two oblique black 

 irregular transverse stripes, one near the base, and the other before the middle of the 

 wing ; the latter shades into ochraceous above, below, and in the middle. A row of 

 irregular and interrupted ochraceous and blackish markings also crosses the Aving at 

 three-fourths of its length. Hind wings longer, narrower, and produced into a point 

 at the extremity ; the space between the hyaline portion of the wing and the apex 

 is irregularly varied with brown ; and the outer third of the inner margin is ochraceous, 

 slightly marked with browni on the inner side ; and before the inner end of this 

 ochraceons border an irregular ochraceous mark, varied with brown above, is thrown 

 up for about one-third of the width of the wing, the whole inner area of which is 

 otherwise entirely hyaline. 



Entebbe, March 24th, 1900. 



Differs from all the described species of this curious genus by its pale colouring 

 and ]3attern, as well as in the comparatively long, slender antenna?, which hardly 

 accord with the short clubbed antenna? which are usually characteristic of the family 

 M;/rmeleonidce. 



POLYZOA. 



Plumatella }:>rinc€2>s,'KYQ.e\)(i\m .... Lake Victoria. 



P. p^'incejys, Kraepelin Lake Albert. 



P. p7'incejis, Kraepelin Lake Albert Edward. 



P. 2Xjli/morp/m, Kraepelin Lake Albert Edward. 



Hydrozoa. 

 Hj/dra, resembling Htjdra fmca Pallas {fide Meissner). 



