in the British Museum, 353 



yellow, the outer face of the fore coxse a little darker ; 

 troehauters yellow; remainder of the lejis dark brown, the 

 femoral bases paler brown. Wings with a pale brownish- 

 grey tinge, sparsely marked with small, rounded, brown 

 spots, as follows : at arculus ; at origin of Rs ; at the fork 

 of Sc ; at the fork of R^m^ ; tip of 7?j, the two last s|)ots 

 forming a geminate mark at the region of the stigma ; spots 

 at the tips of veins Ro, R^, 2nd A, and smaller spots at the 

 ends of all the intermediate longitudinal veins ; cord and 

 outer end of cell ^st M2 very narrowly seamed with brown ; 

 a rounded brown cloud at the fork of J/1+2 ; veins dark 

 brown. Venation : Sc moderately long, Sci ending a short 

 distance beyond the fork of Rs, Sco nearly at the tip of Sci 

 and exactly opposite the fork of Rs ; Rs long, strongly 

 angulated at origin ; Ro+s, ^^''^S) gently arcuated, longer than 

 cell 1st M2; T at the tip of R^ and just before mid-length of 

 /?2 ; inner ends of cells R^, Rr^, and Isi M2 almost in align- 

 ment ; cell Ml deep, about two and one-half times the 

 length of its petiole; cell \st Mo large, subrectangular ; 

 outer deflection of M^ a little longer than m ; basal deflec- 

 tion of Cui at or just beyond mid-length of Cell 1st M.,. 

 Macrotrichije on the veins numerous, black ; on veins R 

 and 2nd A extending to basad of arculus. 



Abdominal segments dark brown, the apices broadly 

 yellowish, broader and more evident on the sternites. The 

 abdomen is broken before mid-length in all three specimens 

 available. 



Hab. British Central Africa. 



Holotype, sex? (Dr. C. W. Daniels), no. 82. 



Paratopotypes, 2 specimens of uncertain sex, one carded 

 "with the type. 



Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 

 History). 



Limnophila diffusa, sp. n. 



Head grey ; mesonotal prsescutum yellow with three dark 

 brown stripes; wings greyish yellow with a very pale 

 diffuse pattern ; abdominal segments ringed Avith brown and 

 yellow. 



Female. — Length 8*6 mm. ; wing 9 mm. 



Rostrum yellowish ; palpi brown. Antennae with the 

 elongate first scapal segment |)ale brown, the second obscure 

 yellow ; flagellum broken. Head grey, the region of the 

 occiput more brownish yellow. 



Pronotum pale greyish brown, Afesonotal prrescutum 

 Ann. (So Mag. N. Hist. Scr. 9. Vol. vi. 24 



