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immediately below vertex) and basi-occipital region smoke-grey pollinose, basi- 

 occipital region and lower portion of posterior orbits clothed with Naples-yellow 

 hair, lower portion of sides of face next eyes sparsely clothed with minute 

 ochraceous-buff hairs ; proximal joint of palpi dark brown (reddish at extreme 

 tip), clothed below with yellowish hairs, terminal joint shaped like a banana ; 

 first and second joints of antennae greyish pollinose, sparsely clothed with yellowish 

 hairs. Thorax : bright Naples-yellow hair on dorsum arranged exactly like the 

 ochre-yellow hair in the case of the foregoing species ; fore-border of Naples- 

 yellow hairs absent from rather less than middle third, except for a few scattered 

 hairs ; pleurae with an oblique fringe of yellowish hairs below base of each wing, 

 elsewhere clothed with black hairs ; dorsum, except as already stated, clothed 

 with minute appressed black hairs. Abdomen : dorsum of first segment with a 

 few appressed, bright Naples-yellow hairs in middle line, next hind margin ; 

 dorsum of second segment clothed with similar hairs, except on anterior half of 

 each lateral third ; dorsum of third segment with a minute patch of similar hairs 

 on hind border, in middle line ; median third of dorsum of each of the three 

 following segments clothed with similar hairs ; lateral margins of tergites of last 

 two segments clothed with ochraceous-rufous hairs ; dorsum, except as stated, 

 clothed with minute, appressed, black hairs ; ventral scutes of second, fourth, 

 and fifth segments each bearing on each side a large quadrate patch of bright, 

 pale Naples-yellow hairs ; ventral scute of third segment on each side similarly 

 but more sparsely clothed ; ventral scutes of last two segments clothed with 

 ochraceous-rufous hair, except each lateral extremity of penultimate segment, 

 which is clothed with Naples-yellow hair ; venter, except as stated, clothed with 

 minute, appressed, black hairs, which however on median portion of fourth and 

 fifth segments are interspersed with minute ochraceous-rufous hairs. Wings : 

 costa and first longitudinal vein ochraceous-rufous, other veins, except within 

 dark area, ochraceous ; first posterior cell narrowly open (at least in case of 

 type). Squamae cream-coloured, Haltcrcs : knobs cream-buff, pale cinnamon- 

 coloured on each of their broader faces, stalks mummy-brown. Legs : coxae 

 burnt-umber-coloured, clothed with black hair, hind coxae with Naples-yellow 

 hair on outer side ; femora orange-rufous, extreme tips paler (cream-buff) ; front 

 tibiae ochraceous-rufous, cream-buff at base on anterior surface ; middle and 

 hind tibiae somewhat slender, cream-buff, distal extremities ochraceous-rufous ; 

 tarsi ochraceous-rufous ; hair on upper side of front femora and on anterior 

 surface of middle femora, except at distal extremities of both, black. 



Ny AS aland Protectorate ; Blantyre, October or November, 1909 (Dr. 

 J. E. S. Old). 



Genus Pangonia, Latr. 



Pangonia comata, sp. n. (fig. 3). 



(5 . — Length (3 specimens) 10*5 to 11 mm. ; width of head 4 to 4'4 mm. ; 

 length of proboscis, exclusive of labella, 3 to 3'75 mm. ; length of labella 1 mm. ; 

 length of wing 10'4 to 10*8 mm. 



Small species, densely clothed with short, fine hair ; dorsum of thorax grey or slate- 

 grey, on each side with tioo oblique, elongate, clove-brown patches, one in front of 

 and one behind transverse suture ; dorsum of abdomen black, with three transverse 



