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Key to the African Species of Motes. 



2$. 



1. Wing-s byaliiie, clouded with fuscous 2. 



Wings golden yellow, with a broad fuscous 



niaigin 3. 



2. Abdomen wholly red M. cyphononyx, Kohl. 



Two or three apical segments of the abdomen 



only red M. odontophvra, Kohl. 



3. Abdominal segments with a broad reddish- 



browu apical band <ibove and beneath . . M. decejAor, Turn. 

 Abdominal segments without a reddish 



apical band M. liroides, Turn. 



Mutes cyphonovyx, Kolil. 



The type is fVoin West Africa. Specituens in the Britisli 

 Museimi are from Muera, Uganda, Auoust (C. G. Gowdey) ; 

 Cliagwe, Miibira Forest, Uganda, SoOO feet, Jnly [S. A. 

 JSeave) ; Mhinje, Nya.salaiid, Jaiiuaiy {S. A. Neave) ; Upper 

 Luangwa iiiver, JN'.E. Rhodesia, August (/S'. A. Neave). 



Motes deceptor^ sp. n. 



$ . Nigra ; capite, pronoto, mesonoto, scutello, segmento mediano 

 supia, abdomine supra tibiisque anticis intermediisque subtus 

 dense aureo-pilosis ; scapo subtus, tegulis, segmentis dorsalibus et 

 ventralibus 2-5 fascia lata apicali, segmeiito dorsali sexto, 

 femoribus apice, tibiis tarsisque bruuneo-ferrugiueis ; alls auran- 

 tiacis, fascia lata apicali fusca. 

 Long. 20 mm. 



? . The whole dorsal surface of the insect covered with 

 dense golden pubescence, concealing the sculpture. Mandibles 

 incised on the outer margin ; cl}peus narrowly and sliallowly 

 emarginate on the middle of the apical margin ; second joint 

 of the tiagellum equal to the third, rather more than twice 

 as long as the tiist. Eyes separated on the vertex by a 

 distance equal to the length of the second joint of the 

 flagellnm. Pronotum sunk below the level ot the meso- 

 notun,', higher in the middle than at the sides ; pleuraj 

 smooth, opaque. Sides of the median segment smooth, 

 opaque, witii a few striae near the apex; dorsal suiface and 

 posterior slope strongly transversely striated at the sides, the 

 strife very short. First ventral segment with irregular 

 oblique striee on the apical third, second ventral segment 

 shaped as in Notogonio. Pygidial area in the form of a 

 triangle rather bioadly truncated at the apex, clothed with 

 short setifij a row of very stout setae forunng a comb at tlie 



