26 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



from Sierra Leone in 1838 (Rev. F. D. Morgan), Sierra Leone 

 (J. J. Simpson and W. G. Clements in 1893), Shengay in the 

 north Sberbro District of Sierra Leone in 1910 (W. Addison), 

 Kokona on March 26th, 1912, Gigbema on August 22nd, 1912, 

 Bunbumbo on x'Vugust 15th and 16th, 1912, and Kamagbouse on 

 April 6th, 1912; from Nigeria at Ilorin on June 3rd, 1912, 

 Minna during 1911 (J. W. Scott-Macfie), and on October 18th, 

 1910 (J. J. Simpson), Oshogbo, in southern Nigeria, in 1910 

 (Dr. T. F. G. Mayer) ; from the Congo in 1843 (Dr. Richardson) 

 and 1890 (Miss Sharpe) ; from the East Neave has sent several 

 females from the Tero Forest, near Buddu, taken at the end 

 of September, 1911, at 3800 ft., and near Kumi and Lake Kiogo 

 at 3500 ft. in the Uganda Protectorate during the preceding 

 August. The Deut. Ent. Museum has it from Togo and the 

 Cameroons. 



3. OsPRHYNCHOTus GiGAS, Krioch. 

 Ospo-ynchotus gigas, Kriech. Mem. Accad. Sc. Bologna, iv. 1894, 

 p. 86, female. 



This I believe to be the commonest species of the genus. It 

 is described : — Black ; head transverse, posteriorly obliquely 

 constricted and red with the facial orljits paler, fulvescent ; 

 antennae black with scape red, and the eighth to twelfth joints 

 pale fulvous; mesonotum rugosely punctate, and not at all red ; 

 metanotum rugose ; scutellum somewhat convex, punctate, 

 centrally subglabrous, with the prescutellar lateral laminae red- 

 marked; abdomen glabrous and nitidulous, with terebra 12 mm. 

 in length ; front legs red, with infuscate tarsi ; the posterior 

 black with a band, occupying about two-thirds of the hind tibiae, 

 pale flavous ; most of the apical half of the hind metatarsi, and 

 whole of the second to fourth joints, concolorous ; wings dark 

 violaceous, with their apices broadly black ; a subpellucid mark 

 beyond the stigmal base, and three hyaline fenestrae in the 

 disco-cubital, second recurrent and outer areolar nervure; 

 length, 27^ mm. Kriechbaumer's above account is not very 

 accessible and was overlooked by Tosquinet ; I, consequently, 

 give it in extenso from his part of the paper " Rassegna degl' 

 Imenotteri Raccolti nel Mozambico dal Cav. Fornasini." 



I have seen a hundred and forty specimens of both sexes (the 

 male differs in no way but its paler red capital colour) which 

 agree exactly with this description from Abyssinia, British East 

 Africa, Uganda, German East Africa, Nyassaland, Mo9ambique, 

 Delagoa Bay, north and north-east Rhodesia, Natal; and a 

 male in the Rev. T. A. Marshall's collection which is labelled 

 •' Senegal," but several of his African localities were incorrect, 

 and the present species seems rare or wanting towards the east 

 of the Continent. I have seen both sexes in the Deut. Ent. 

 Museum from Three Sisters, near Barberton, in the Transvaal, 

 where they occurred during October and December. 



