Mr. R. E. Turner on Fossorial Uynieaoptera. A'M 



? . Clypous broadly rounded ut llie npc-x ; tlic lal)runi 

 very shallowly cmarginate at the apex and divided by a deep 

 lonjiifudinal sulcus'. {Second joint of tlie flaLC«'lluin long, 

 al)C)nt Iialf as lonq; attain as tiu- tiiiril ; eyes reacliinij tlie base 

 of the niandibles, distinctly divergent Unvards the clypeus, 

 separated on the vertex by a distance about efpud to the 

 length of the third joint of the tla<;eniini. rronotnni widely 

 arched posteriorly, not an<2;u'ate in the middle; the anterior 

 angles very broadly rounded. Scutellum with a fiat dorsal 

 surface, narrowly ronnded at the aj)ex ; median segment 

 gradually sloped posteriorly, without a median sulcus. Sixth 

 dorsal soginent broadly rounded at the apex and thinly 

 clothed with long Uaek hairs. Third abscissa of the radius 

 shorter than the second, a little shorter than the second 

 transverse cubital nervure; second recurrent nervure received 

 beyond the middle of the third cubital cell ; basal nervure 

 of the fore wing interstitial ; cubitus of the hind wing origin- 

 ating just hefiire the tiansverse median nervure. Fore tarsi 

 with a long comb, three spines oti the basal joint. Ungues 

 of the fore tarsi bifid, of the others uuidentate. 



^ . Clypeus very broadly rounded at the apex, subcarinate 

 longitudinally in the middle ; from the base a low carina 

 branches towards the anterior angles, but does not extend 

 to them. Labium rounded at the apex, without a sulcus. A 

 very high sharp carina between the antennae extending to 

 the base of the cly))eus. Front marked with an arched low 

 carina on each side below the anterior ocellus, the area below 

 the carinre slightly concave. The joints of the flagellum 

 from the fifth to tlie ninth are strongly arcuate beneath, the 

 second joint is equal to the tiiird. Pronotum arcuate on the 

 posterior margin, rather strongly narrowed in front. Seventh 

 ventral segment with a longitudinal carina. Tiiird abscissa 

 of the radius shorter than in the female, being scarcely more 

 than half as long as the second transverse cubital nervure. 

 All the tarsal ungues bifid. 



IJah. Mlanje, Nyasaland, October to March [S. A. Neave) ; 

 Usagara District, German East Afiica, 2500 ft., December 

 {S. A. Neave). 



Tlie female of this species closely resembles the tropical 

 ioxm o( B. fulir/inosus, Klug, and, like that species, varies 

 much in the colour of the antennrc and front ; it may, how- 

 ever, at once be distinguished by the great difference in the 

 point of origin of the cubitus of the hind wing, which in 

 fHH<^inosus is separated from the transverse metlum nervure 

 by a distance exceeding half the length of the third joint of 

 llie flagellum, whereas in ^cparubilis the distance does not 



