in iJie British Mufeum. 355 



Hearl very hroad, blaclc, with a sparse brown pollen ; vertex 

 with numerous, mostly proclinate bristles ; vertex between 

 the small eyes very broad. 



Pronotiim moderately conspicuous, dark brown ; scutum 

 transversely rectanfjnlar ; prosternum moderately broad, 

 separating the fore coxse. Mesonotnm shiny black throu;^h- 

 oiit. Pleura similar with a sparse brownish pollen. 

 Halteres brown, the base of the stem paler brown, the knobs 

 dark browni^ih black. Legs with tlie eoxfe very large, black • 

 troehanters reddish brown ; legs black, the bases of the 

 femora rather bright yellow, this narrowest on the fore legs 

 where it occupies a little more than the basal quarter, 

 broadest on the hind legs where about a third of the femur 

 is included : femora rather stout. Wings yellowish sub- 

 hvaline with a rather heaw brown pattern, distributed as 

 follows : at ^ ; in the basal cells extending from C to vein 

 }sf A, lying a short distance beyond the arculus ; an inter- 

 rupted cross-band at the level of the origin of Rs, consisting 

 of a large rounded spot at the latter position and a still 

 larger, hour-glass shaped mark extending from cell ^f to the 

 wing-margin at the end of vein 2nd A, narrowest at vein 

 1.?/ .4. this baud interrupted on both sides of vein M in 

 cells R and M ; the third area consists of a similarly inter- 

 rupted band at the cord, broadest at the costal margin, 

 narrowed behind to the fork of 31, continued behind this as 

 a broad seam on the basal deflection of Crti, which forks, 

 sending a branch to both Ist A and Cn.y at the wiug-)iiargin ; 

 outer end of cell 1st M^ seamed with brown ; a small spot 

 at the fork of M^j^o ; conspicuous rounded brown clouds at 

 the ends of all the longitudinal veins, those at the wing-tip 

 being confluent across cells R^ to M^ ; a large rounded spot 

 at the middle of cell 2nd A \ veins yellow, dark brown in 

 the darkened areas. Venation : Sc ending immediately 

 before the fork of Rs, Sc2 at the tip of Scy ; Rs long, 

 straight, forming an acute angle at its origin ; /?2+3 short, 

 about equal to r-m ; r near the tip of i?i and at about mid- 

 length of the long R^ ; basal deflection of Kt+r. about one- 

 half longer than r-m ; inner ends of cells R,, and T?., almost 

 in alignment or the latter a little more distad ; cell Ist Mo 

 rectangular, the basal deflection of C/Zj at about three-fifths 

 its length : cell 1.?^ J/j ^ little longer than its petiole ; forks 

 of vein Oi about equal ; 2nd Anal vein sinuous. 



Abdomen shiny black, the ninth pleurites and appendages 

 conspicuously reddish ; pleural appendages slender, gently 

 curved, decussate. 

 Hub. Abyssinia. 



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