Short-ltorned G va^slioppem from East Africa. 683 



followinof parts : — A well-dctined oran'>c-red fascia across 

 the lower half of the face and clieeks, along the lower third 

 of the lateral pronotal lobes, and ol)liquely across the meso- 

 plenra3. The head and pronotiim above of the same colour, 

 ])ut somewhat less briiiht; a narrow black fascia along the 

 median keel of the pronotum, extending also a very short 

 way on to the occiput. Mesopleune with an oblique, bright 

 orange-red fascia. Abdominal tergites bluish in their hind 

 parts. The underside with a row of large orange-yellow 

 spots, the first one occupying the apex of the prosternal 

 tubercle, two on the sternum, and seven more on the hind 

 margins of the abdominal tergites. Hind femora with the 

 base of the upper outer carina orange-red and the transverse 

 sulci testaceous. Hind tibiae greenish below. Elytra 

 brownish black, with the marginal membrane at the apex 

 whitish. AVings black, with a bluish sheen ; the inner 

 margin bhie ; hind margin in its hind half narrowly bluish; 

 the outer membrane of the apex whitish. The cerci some- 

 what longer than the supra-anal plate, subcyliudrical, slightly 

 incurved, blunt apically. 



? (paratype). Differs from the male type in its lighter 

 general coloration. All the parts that are described as 

 orange-red in the male are in this female reddish ochraceous 

 or yellow; abdominal tergites fasciated not with bluish, but 

 with yellow; elytra with the veins pale; hind femora with 

 all outer carin?e, as w^ell as transverse sulci, pale ; hind tibiae 

 with pale spots along the upper outer margin, between the 

 spines. 



(S (type). $ (paratype). 

 mm. mm. 



Length of Ixxly 31 35 



„ pronotum .... 7 8 



„ elytra 27 29 



„ hind femora . . 15\5 16"5 



The type is from Entebbe, Uganda, 5.iii. 1913 (C. C. 

 Gowdeij) ; the series of paratypic specimens includes 112 

 examples of both sexes, taken mostly at the same locality, 

 partly in Chagwe^ the Mabira Forest, Mbale, and Tero — all 

 in Uganda. 



The unusually long series of paratypes enables me to state 

 that the described specific characters are very constant, and 

 the described type and paratype represent the two extremes 

 in the variation of the coloration^ that of the male type 

 being much more common than the less striking coloration 

 of the female paratype ; some specimens show a soraewhnt 

 greenish shade on the metazona of the pronotum, but I am 



