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2. AURICOMUS, sp. n. 



c? . A handsome, anreo-flavous species with profuse black 

 markings and evenly nigrescent wings. Head shoi-t, Jiardly 

 narrower tlian the eyes, with the posterior margin subtruncate ; 

 face finely, with its centre and clypens much more coarsely, 

 punctate ; mandibles narrow and punctate, labi'um exserted, 

 clypens centrally a little produced ; frons longitudinally in the 

 centre and back of head, below tlie occipital margin, black. 

 Antennt'e hardly longer than half the bod}^, stout and attenuate 

 throughout, immaculate orange with the joints short. Thorax 

 closely and finely punctate, with all the pleui'se more sparsely 

 punctate and shining ; whole frenum, basal f cutellar fovea 

 broadly, propleuite both above and beloAv the collar, mesopleurje 

 and -sternum except the radical callosities, an apical line and 

 small mark above coxae, metathoracic base and petiolar nrea, 

 black ; mesonotum indefinitely nigrescent and discally pubescent, 

 notauli apical ; metanotal carinje entii'e ; areola square, glabrous, 

 glittering and spinately produced basally in the centre ; spiracles 

 elongate and apophyses wanting. Scutellum a little convex, 

 shining, finely and not closely punctate. Abdomen dull and very 

 closely punctate Avitli golden pilosity, stionger on the fifth and 

 following segments ; second to fifth segments except their apical 

 margin regularly and sides irregularly, and whole venter, black ; 

 first segment punctate and, except apically, indefinitely rufescent; 

 gastrocoeli shining, narrower than the simple intervening space ; 

 second and third venti'ul segments plicate, the last not centrallj^ 

 produced. Legs somewhat stout and not elongate, with only the 

 lower side of hind coxse and trochanters partly black; claws 

 simple. Witigs evenly infumate throughout ; tegulse and i-adix 

 flavous, stigma and costa black ; areolet broad above and a little 

 produced apically below ; radius apically reflexed. — The $ differs 

 very slightly in having the sternum, pleurse, and metathorax 

 im.maculate black, as also are the posterior cox;e ; but the frons 

 and occiput are pale ; coxfe not scopulate. Length, 14 mm. 

 c? $ . — The typical male was found at Nairobi during June or 

 July, 1912, by Dr. A. D. Milne; the only female I have seen is 

 labelled with the MS. and most inap2:)ropriate name '■\fidqidipennis, 

 Cam., Type. Uganda,'" and lacks abdomen. 



3. FULVOOAUDATUS Tosq. 



This male has not been mentioned since first described from 

 Hadda Galla'in Abyssinia by Tosquinet (Mem. Soc. Entom. Belg. 

 v. 1896, p. 76). It is an extremely conspicuous species in its 

 black wings and body with orange antennte, red head and anus, 

 and fulvous legs. The present example of but 11 mm. is smaller 

 than the type and has the areola as long as broad, distinctly 

 hexagonal, and not "a bords arrondis": it is from Peter 

 Cameron's collection, simply labelled '• Erythria." 



