G. BEEVIPALPIS: LEGS AND WINGS. 81) 



segment in both sexes yellowish-grey or fawn-coloured pollinose ; 

 Injpopiigmm of $ (Fig. 24 a, p. 99) buff pollinose, seen from below 

 roughly oval in outline, with its anterior margin flattened ; 

 longer hair at base of second segment golden-yellow in middle, 

 dark brown or black at sides ; third, fourth and fifth segments 

 very short (shorter than corresponding segments in G. fnsca). 



Legs buff, middle and hind tibiae as a rule with (at any rate 

 an indication of) a brown ring round middle, most conspicuous, 

 darkest, and often complete on hind tibiae, fainter, generally 

 incomplete, and often reduced to a mere trace on middle tibiae, 

 front tibiae usually with a vestige of a corresponding ring, 

 generally reduced to a faint brownish blotch on inside in 

 middle ; front femora on inside (sometimes also on outside), 

 middle and hind femora on outside towards distal extremity 

 usually slightly infuscated, middle femora generally with a 

 brownish blotch on under side near tip ; front and hind tibiae 

 towards the tips and first three joints of front and hind tarsi 

 clothed beneath with short golden pile ; last two joints of front 

 tarsi more or less infuscated at the tips ; last two joints of 

 middle and hind tarsi, except proximal half of penultimate joint 

 of middle tarsi, dark brown ; extreme tips of other tarsal joints 

 sometimes infuscated. 



Wings pale Isabella-coloured, distal extremity son^ewhat 

 darker than proximal third ; veins pale tawny, upper portion 

 of anterior transverse vein strongly incrassate, anterior trans- 

 verse vein together with adjacent portion of fourth longitudinal 

 vein lying towards base of wing, as well as posterior transverse 

 vein and portion of fourth vein immediately beyond, conspicuously 

 infuscated ; basal portion of the veins from the second to the 

 sixth also darker. Squamae not infuscated, fringe of pale 

 brownish or yellowish, fine, silky hair rather long. Halieres 

 cream-buff. 



The specimens from which the above description has been 

 drawn up are a ^ and 9 from the Nyasaland Protectorate 

 (Dr. J. B. Davey : presented by the Entomological Research 

 Committee (Tropical Africa)), in the British Museum Collec- 

 tion — the (J from North Nyasa, taken in the evening 

 on the Karonga-Songwe road, two miles south of Kaporo, 

 5. viii. 1909, the $ caught at Nkomo, Marimba district, 

 23. i. 1910. 



