244 PROF. M. BEZZI. 



of much weaker ones, which are sometimes hardly distinct. Abdomen elongate, 

 with distinct but not strong bristles on sides and at end ; ovipositor conical, long, 

 but a little shorter than the abdomen. Legs rather stout ; front femora with 3-4 

 strong bristles below. Wings long and proportionally narrow, much variegated, 

 having the fore half yellow and the hind half with a broad blackish band and some 

 hyaline indentations along the hind border. Costa densely but shortly ciliated, 

 without a distinct bristle ; stigma long ; 2nd longitudinal vein wavy ; 3rd bristly 

 throughout its whole length, with the last portion a little bent before the middle and 

 parallel with the 4th, the first posterior cell being proportionally narrow and long ; 

 discoidal cell much longer than the very short and almost triangular 2nd posterior 

 cell, the small cross- vein placed much beyond the middle and very near the posterior 

 cross- vein, which is rather perpendicular and longer than its distance from the small 

 one ; anal cell broad and long, with the lower angle acute and produced but not longer 

 than the second basal cell. In consequence of the breadth of the marginal and sub- 

 marginal cells, the discoidal and posterior cells are narrower than usual, and the 

 discoidal cell is thus placed much nearer to the hind border of the wing than in the 

 related forms. 



1. Themarictera flaveolata, Fabricius, 1805 ; Wiedemann, Auss. Zweifl., ii, 1830, 



p. 481. 



A large and handsome species, obviously recognisable from the short descriptions 

 of Fabricius and Wiedemann. 



Head and its appendages wholly reddish yellow ; their bristles are entirely black, 

 like those of the thorax and scutellum. Thorax, scutellum and mesophragma entirely 

 reddish yellow and shining, the pleurae being a little paler ; the two rounded black 

 spots are placed just above the humeri, one on each side. Abdomen shining and 

 coloured like the thorax, darkened along- the middle line, with yellowish pubescence 

 and black bristles ; ovipositor black and with black pubescence. Legs entirely 

 yellowish, with pale pubescence and black bristles. Wing pattern well described by 

 Wiedemann. 



Originally described from Guinea, there is a 2 specimen (British Museum) from 

 Dahomey, Cotonou, 70 miles W. of Lagos, 29th May 1914 (W. A. Lamborn). 



2. Themarictera laticeps, Loew, Berl. entom. Zeitschr., v, 1861, p. 260, pi. ii, fig. 2. 

 Originally described from Caffraria, and apparently distinct from the preceding 



species on account of some minor details of the wing pattern. 



Of the allied genus Themara there is a known Ethiopian species, T. fallacivena, 

 Enderlein (Zool. Zahrb., xxxi, 1911, p. 422), described from Fernando Po, and 

 recorded by Dr. Speiser in 1915 from Camerun, Soppo and Victoria. 



XL Baryglossa, gen. nov. 



I have to erect here this new genus for a peculiar form, which shows a wing 

 pattern recalling that of some Oriental species of Riooca and Ptilona and closely 

 approaching the reticulate type. 



Body short and proportionally broad, rather stout. Head low and broad, in front 

 view broader than high. Eyes greatly developed, occupying almost the whole of the 



