60 Dr. 0. P. Aloxaivler on 



tliat is neaily equal to lialf the length oE the entire flagelluni. 

 Head retldisli brown. 



Mesonotal j)resciitum yellowish, with four long bright 

 fulvous stripes ; renuiindfr of the niesonotum fulvous, the 

 nnd-liiie ot the scutum and the scutellum more yellowish. 

 The niesonotum is densely and minutely setigerous, the punc- 

 tures black. Pleura brownish. Ilalteres liglit brown, the 

 knobs a little darker. Lfgs with the cuxre and trochanters 

 dull yellow ; femora reddish brown, beyond mid-length with 

 a narrow white ring which has a subequal blackish ring on 

 either side, this white mark largest and most distinct on the 

 posterior femora ; tibirc white, the apical quarter pale 

 brownish, the extreme tip black ; base of tlio tibia3 brown, a 

 broad black band before mid-length ; three basal tarsal 

 segments yellowish white, black at the tips, palest on the 

 metatarsi, the remaining tarsal segments brown. The legs 

 nro clothed with a long, faiily dense, semierect pubescence; 

 metatarsus at the extreme base with a transverse group ot' 

 three stout black spines. Wings rather broad, subhyaline, 

 with a heavy dotted and banded pattern as follows : — a 

 broad band at the cord and another at the orifjin of the sector 

 extending across the wing to the ninrgin, ending at the tip 

 of 2ud A ; this pattern does not include the costal cell ; the 

 band at the cord is forked at its ce])lialic end, one branch 

 encircling Scj, the other the tip of Sci and B^ ; these 

 bands are pale broAVii, broadly maiuined with dark brown, 

 to produce an ocellate appearance ; similar ocellate markings 

 at the outer end of cell 1st if j, the tip of it*,, and the foik 

 of il/i^2 ; cell C yellowish, wiili about a dozen dark brown 

 dots ; remainder of the wing with numerous small pale 

 brownish dots that are larger and more diffuse in the anal 

 cells; veins brown, C, jS'c, and K more yellowish. Vena- 

 tion : generally similar to L. africcaiii, Alex. (Congo); basal 

 deflecfion of Ui^^ shorter and more arcuatod basally ; ccdl 

 Ist M2 more nearly rectanguhii', .1/^ l»<iing almost in a line 

 with M before the fork of the latter. 



Abdominal tergites fulvous, the apical segments indis- 

 tinctly ringed caudally with silvery grey; hypopygium 

 brown ; sternitcs similar, the lateial margins blackish, the 

 posterior margin pale ; eighih sternite black, conspicuously 

 projecting. Male hyj)opygium with the ninth tergite trans- 

 versely truncated wilh a deej) U-shaped median notch ; 

 j)lcural appendages densely white pubescent, each at the apex 

 produced into a slender, slightly curved, black point. 



Ilah. West Africa. 



