The female that is referred to this species differs from the type 

 maie in the following regards : Vertex narrower; praescutal stripe 

 entirely confluent, restricting the golden-yellow pubescence to the 

 latéral régions of the sclerite; wing-pattern very heavy throughout. 



Hab. Belgian Congo. 



Holotype, ~, Kilo (Dr. Abetti). 



Allotype, i, Eala, January 14, 1921 (H. Schouteden). 



Type in the collection of the Congo Muséum, at Tervueren; 

 allotype in the writer's collection. This species is named in honor of 

 the collector, Dr. H. Schouteden. 



LIMONIA CONGOENSIS (Alexander). 



1920 Limnobia congoensis Alexander; Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 43 : 11, 12, pi. 4, fig. 1. 



A female from Kibwezi, British East Africa, altitude 2000 feet, 

 December 24, 1921 (R. A. Dummer) is in the writer's collection. 



A KEY TO THE SPECIES OF THE CONGOENSIS GROUP 

 OF THE GENUS LIMONIA 



General characters of the group : 



General coloration black, variegated with yellow, the thoracic 

 and abdominal markings black to a greater or less extent; wing 

 with a solid, dark brown, hairy stigma ; wing-apex and posterior 

 margin more or less infuscated; cells of the wing not spotted or 

 dotted with darker. 



1. — Thoracic prxscutum with the broad black stripes confluent, prac- 

 tically restricting the ground-color to the humerai région : pleura 

 marked with black : abdomen mosdy black with rarely more than 

 a single one of the intermediate segments variegated with orange 

 or yellow. 2 



Thoracic praescutum with a broad, médian black stripes and, in 

 cases, less distinct latéral stripes ; when the médian stripe is broad 

 (humfreyî), the pleura is yellow, immaculate. 4 



