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the point with a median split that extends to the eighth 
tergite ; a small U-shaped median notch with nearly parallel 
sides, the lateral lobes thus formed covered with abundant 
blackened setigerous tubercles ; viewed from the side, the 
outermost lobes are seen to bear on their caudal face a 
slender blackened arm, whose ventral proximal face is 
serrated. Outer pleural appendage very slender, broadest 
just beyond the base, tapering to a long point. Gona- 
pophyses flattened, widened distally. Ninth sternite with 
a nearly square median notch, the median area cephalad 
of this notch weakly membrauaceous. Lighth sternite 
unarmed. 
Hab. Uganda. 
Holotype, 3, Daro or Durro Forest, Toro, altitude 4000- 
4500 feet, October 25-29, 1911 (S. A. Neave). 
Allotopotype, 2. 
Paratype, 2 , Mabira Forest, Chagwe, altitude 3500-3800 
feet, July 16-25, 1911 (S. A. Neave). 
Presented by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, 1913. 
140, 1915:.57. 
Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 
History). ; 
A female from Northern Buddu, altitude 3800 feet, 
September 16-18, 1911 (S. A. Neave), and two females from 
between the Seziwa River and Kampala, altitude 3500-3750 
feet, August 27-31, 1911 (S. A. Neave), differ from the 
types above described in a few respects, but probably belong 
to this species (labelled N. chalydea, variety). 
Nephrotoma fumidapicalis, sp. n. 
Allied to N. mossambica ; general coloration’ orange- 
yellow ; mesonotal prescutum and scutum with a single 
large shiny black area ; postnotum and scutellum provided 
with numerous short black hairs; legs black, the femoral 
bases broadly yellowish; wings smoky brown, the apex 
distinctly darker ; abdomen orange-yellow, segments two to 
five with the caudal and lateral margins broadly black, seg- 
ments six to nine black. 
Male.—Length 11°5-12°5 mm.; wing 12-13 mm. ; an- 
tennee about 7°] mm. 
Female.—Length 15-17 mm.; wing 13°3-15 mm. 
Frontal prolongation of head yellow, the dorsum slightly 
more reddish, shiny ; nasus tipped with long black bristles ; 
mouth-parts and palpi reddish yellow. Antenne of the 
