368 On new African PJdebotomlc Fhpiera. 



extremity of the rosette forms the customary loop in the 

 marginal cell immediiitely beyond the stigma ; lower portions 

 of proximal and median rosettes alone distinct ; proximal 

 and distal extremities of discal cell more or less distinctly 

 occupied by portions of these rosettes ; second basal cell 

 with a more or less distinct pale loop at each eud^ the 

 proximal loop, however, sometimes taking the form of an 

 ill-defined pale blotch ; posterior cells crossed by a series of 

 disconnected, oblique, pale marks (the usual continuation of 

 the apical sinuous mark) ; along posterior margin of wing 

 light markings usually but not invariably present in distal 

 angles of ]josterior cells ; anal angle with a more or less 

 distinct pale border (sometimes broad), proximal extremity 

 of which is connected with usual loop in angle formed by 

 axillary incision and sixth longitudinal vein, while to distal 

 extremity is attached customary zigzag mark, which crosses 

 anal cell (in some specimens pale border of anal angle is con- 

 tinued along hind margin to distal extremity of axillary 

 cell) ; veins for most part mummy-brown ; membrane 

 immediately adjoining base of anterior branch of first longi- 

 tudinal vein and that bordering veins or portions of veins 

 bounding distal extremit}^ of discal cell and posterior half of 

 distal extremity of second basal cell distbictly infuscated ; 

 stigma usually dark brown or clove-brown and sharply 

 defined (except its proximal extremity, which is somewhat 

 paler) ; quadrate drab-coloured patch behind stigma (crossing 

 marginal and first submarginal cells) inconspicuous. Hal- 

 teres : knobs dark seal-brown, stalks cream-coloured. Legs : 

 coxae and femora slate-grey, sparsely clothed with fine 

 yellowish hair ; front tibiae clove-brown, marked just beyond 

 base with a faii'ly broad bulf-colourcd or cream-buff band, 

 distal two-thirds conspicuously swollen ; middle and hind 

 tibiae dark brown, each marked with two buff or cream-buff' 

 bands ; tarsi clove-brown, Hrst joints of middle and hind 

 pairs, except distal extremities, cream-buff'. 



East xVfrica Protectorate : type and five other specimens 

 from the Athi Plains Game Reserve, alt. 5,000 ft., May 1911 

 {R. B. JJ'oosnam). 



The species above described is not closely allied to any 

 of its Ethiopian congeners hitherto discovered, from which 

 the shining black coloration and elliptical-ovate outline 

 of the first joint of the antennae will at once serve to 

 distinguish it. As regards the shape of the antennie, the 

 nearest approach to the present species among Ethiopian 

 forms is perhaps made by Hxmatopota injlaticornis, Austen, 

 which is as yet known only from Angola ; in II. iitflaticornis, 



