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shore of Lake Albert at 2200 feet at the end of November, 1911 ; 

 and between Jinja and Busia, in some forest east of Busoga at 

 about 3800 feet at the end of July 1911, in Uganda; as well as 

 on the southern slopes of Mount Elgon at some 5500 feet early 

 in the preceding June {Neave), in British East Africa. 



Ctenochares. 



Forster, Verb. pr. Rheinl. xxv. 1868, p. 191. 



The limits of this genus are, owing to the paucity of its original 

 description, at present somewhat too elastic ; but there can, 1 

 think, be little doubt that the two new species here brought for- 

 ward are at least more closely allied therewith than any other. 

 Five kinds belonging here were known to me in 1915 ; the late 

 V. Szepligeti described another from East Africa (Bull. Mus. 

 Paris, 1907, p. 137) and four more in the Kilimanjaro Expedi- 

 tion, which was published in 1910; I brought forward another 

 from South Africa in 1916 (Ann. S. Afr. Mus. xv. p. 371), and 

 Matsumura has recorded the genus from the Island of Sachalin 

 (Journ. Coll. Sapporo, iv. 1911, p. 94), off the east Asian coast. 



1 . BLANDITA Tosq. 



W. Haygarth has found this species at Durban in Natal. 



2. TESTACEA Szepl. 



A common species in South Africa, recently captured by Bell 

 Marley at Stella Bush and Howick in Natal, and P. Kendall met 

 with it at Barberton in the Transvaal (in coll. Distant) ; but 

 rarer farther north, for Neave could find only a single female, 

 with flavidous scutellum and apically black hind femora, on the 

 S.E. slopes of Mount Ken) a at 6000-7000 feet during February 

 1911, in British East Africa. 



3. microcephala, sp. n, 



A clear testaceous insect, with the face and vei'tical orbits 

 indefinitely stramineous ; flagellum and hind tibite black with the 

 8th to 22nd joints of the former, and base of the latter along 

 with their whole tarsi, white. Anterior tarsi nigrescent. Scu- 

 tellum dull, apically a little constricted, laterally carinate as far 

 as apex ; apophyses small, but distinct ; gastrocoeli large and not 

 white. Wings flavescent-hyaline with areolet as broad as high, 

 and not coalescent above ; stigma ferruginous. Length, 15 mm. 

 5 only. — Very like G. testacea but with the head smaller, abdo- 

 men stouter and immaculate ; antenna3 longer and very broadly 

 white-banded, stigma darker and the hind legs quite differently 

 coloured, with only the onychii black. \Phs. In this unique I 

 have taken the left hind tarsus as normal ; curiously, the right 

 one has the apical two-thirds of its basal joint nigrescent.] The 



