100 Miss G. Ricaiclo on 



Loew's remark no. 2 (/. c. p. 235) , concerning the erroneous 

 description of the hands oi: the abdomen of E. heros by 

 AVicdeniann, also applies to this species, which Losw sug^e^ts 

 may be only a variety of E. heros, from which it di tiers 

 in the lesser shading of the wing, which hardly extends 

 into the anal cell. 



G. Winfrs with dark shading on the fore border and through dark 

 shading of the cross-veins (not the longitudinal veins also) more or 

 less spotted. 



Exoprosopa major, sp. n. 



Type (female) from Fort Johnston, Nyasaland [Rendall). 



Black, scutcllum and posterior borders of abdomen dull 

 red. 



Face with black pubescence and yellow scaly hairs. 

 Antennae black; the third joint a little longer than the first, 

 the second short, the bristle stout, as long as the third joint. 

 Hind part of head with white scaly hairs bordering the eyes 

 on the sides, yellow in the centre. Collar conii)osed of 

 yellow hairs. The pubescence on the sides o£ the thorax, on 

 the breast, and above the halteres yellow, with a few black 

 hairs above the yellow on sides of thorax; bristles of thorax 

 black. Thorax with some short black pubescence and some 

 yellow scaly hairs. Scutcllum dull red, black at the base 

 and in the centre. Abdomen dull black, the posterior 

 borders of segments from the third one red, on the sides of 

 the second and third are red spots; the pubesceuce black, 

 with yellow scaly hairs on the sides of all the segments and 

 some long yellow hairs on the first two segments; tlie sides 

 of al)domen with light yellow hairs on the first and on the 

 anterior border of the second and third segments, black hairs 

 intermixed with some yellow ones on the remaining seg- 

 ments ; underside of abdomen black and red, with long light 

 yellow pubescence. Legs black, the posterior ones with 

 yellow scaly hairs. 



Wings grey, the dark shading on the fore border is 

 yellowish brown in colour, extending along the first longi- 

 tudinal vein to its junction with the border, and on its 

 inner side from the base of the second longitudinal vein 

 almost to where the cross-vein of the submarginal cell 

 joins the latter vein ; at the base it fills the first basal cell ; 

 only the cross-vein at the base of the fourth posterior cell 

 and the first part of the vein at the base of the third posterior 

 cell, with the one dividing the fii-st basal cell from the first 

 posterior cell, are shaded ; the small cross-vein is in the 



