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which is furrowed in the middle and nearly reaches the vertex ; 

 tlie forehead is about four times as long as it is broad, only 

 slightly narrower anteriorly. Eyes with no markinjrs. 

 Thorax reddish brown, with darker indistinct stripes and with 

 indistinct grey stripes ; tlie dorsum with greyish toraentum 

 and some black pubescence, traces of whitish pubescence round 

 the roots of wings and base of thorax; sides and breast covered 

 with greyish tomentum and white hairs. Scutelkim reddish, 

 bhuk at base, with grey tomentum and a few white and black 

 hairs. Abdomen reddish brown, wath triangular, narrow, grey, 

 median, tomentose spots, only distinct when viewed from 

 behind and only on the second, third, and fourth segments; 

 the sides with irregular, reddish-yellow, oblong spots covered 

 wath greyish tomentum on the first four segments; the last 

 tinee segments are wholly black, the tifth and sixth with 

 lighter segmentations ; tiie pubescence on the dorsum black ; 

 on the posterior borders of the fifth and sixth segments with 

 white and black hairs, the sides with white pubescence, black 

 at the apex ; underside reddish yellow, black at apex, the 

 segmentations very narrowly white ; pubescence wdiite, black 

 at apex. Legs blackish browm, the fore tibiae red-yellow on 

 basal half, the other tibise wholly red-yellow; the middle and 

 posterior tarsi the same colour, but blacker at ajiex; the 

 pubescence on coxre and femora is white, with some grey 

 tomentum ; on the fore tibise white on basal half, elsewhere 

 black, with some white pubescence on the middle and poste- 

 rior tibia?. Plalteres with dark stem and a yellowish knob. 



Talanus hrunnescejis, $ , sp. n. 



The following specimens are in the British Museum 

 collection : — 



Type (femalej and another female from the Gold Coast, 

 Sept. 1905 {J Jr. McConeU) ; tw^o females from Obuasi, 

 S. Ashanti, 6. iii. 06 {J)r. W. M. Graham), 1906. 150. 

 "Caught in house on window." 



A smaller darker species than T. gahonensis and T. secedens, 

 with a short abdomen, distinguished from them by the thoracic 

 stripes, which are broad and two in number, wholly covered 

 with yellow pubescence, the same width throughout, not 

 showing the suture of thorax as is usual in the above species, 

 and continued to the scutellum, leaving only the middle of it 

 black, with black pubescence. The abdomen is darker in 

 colour, not marked with darker segmentations, but more 

 uniformly dark brown; the median stripe continuous, yellowish 

 yellow and black pubescence, and the side 



