in the British Museum. 7 



yellow, enclosing a brown subapical annulus, this being a 

 little broader than the actual yellow tip ; tibiae and tarsi 

 dark brown. Wings pale yellow, cells C, Sc, and 1st R x 

 brighter yellow ; wing-surface marbled and sprinkled with 

 pale brown spots and clouds ; stigmal area enclosing a pale 

 yellow spot immediately before r ; the marks at the origin 

 of Rs and along the cord are somewhat darker brown, the 

 middle half of Rs being yellow, the ends surrounded by 

 these brown seams; 2nd Anal cell largely occupied by a 

 brown cloud ; compared with the somewhat similar L. soko- 

 trana, the markings are fewer in number and more confluent. 

 Venation : Sc moderately long, Sc x ending a short distance 

 before the fork of Rs, Sc 2 at the tip of Sci ; r at the tip of 

 R x ; basal deflection of Cu x at or a short distance before the 

 fork of M. 



Abdominal tergites brownish, the sternites brownish 

 yellow ; hypopygium pale brown. 



Hab. Uganda, British East Africa. 



Holotype, <J, Hill Bembadalada, May 26, 1911 (Dr. C.H. 

 Marshall) . 



Paratype, <?, Fort Hall, British East Africa, May 1, 1912 

 (W. C.Prichard). 



Presented bv the Entomological Research Committee, 

 1912. 109, 1913. 394. 



Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 

 History) . 



The paratype male is much less distinctly marked than 

 the type above described, but almost surely refers to the 

 same species. 



Limnobia poecila, sp. n. 



Head brown ; antennse dark brown, the flagellar segments 

 oval ; pronotum and mesonotal prsescutum reddish brown 

 with a broad median stripe ; pleura reddish brown ; legs 

 dark brownish black, the femora with an indistinct, narrow, 

 reddish ring before the tip j wings yellowish subhyaline with 

 brown spots and dots that are found in all the cells, but are 

 more distinct and clear-cut in the cells of the costal half, 

 paler and ill-defined in the cells of the caudal half of the 

 wing ; abdomen dark brown. 



Male.— Length 8 mm. ; wing 101mm.; fore leg, femur 

 8'4 mm., tibia 108 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennas dark brown, 

 the flagellar segments oval. Head dark brown. 



Pronotum dark brownish black, the sides reddish yellow. 



