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Male. —Head dusky brown to dusky buff. Posterior surface 
dusky grey, sometimes darker towards the upper margins; facial 
pit grey to ochreous grey; frontal margins shimmering creamy white 
or yellow white. Antennae with the terminal segment strongly 
recurved , and clothed with long pubescent hairs, the longest hairs 
on the dorsal edge being equal to about three-fourths the width of 
the segment. Palpi long, relatively thin and dark brown, tips 
slightly darker. Bulb of proboscis pale, with the proximal portion 
faintly infuscated. 
Thorax. Very dark brown to blackish brown, with very narrow, 
pale, longitudinal stripes, the sub-median ones being generally 
sharply and clearly defined, and scarcely broader than the pale 
transverse suture; pleurae dark brown. 
Abdomen. Blackish brown, with the second segment ochreous 
brown, theie is no median stripe to the remaining segments, but a 
trace of ochreous brown is faintly visible on the third, fourth and 
hfth; lateral margins of all the segments narrowly paler than the 
rest, venter dusky ochreous; sides of the third, fourth and fifth 
segments, and also the hypopygium, infuscated; stigmata white. 
/.t.gs. \ellowish brown or buff; femora broadly and distinctly 
infuscated, especially the middle and hind pair; middle and hind 
tibiae also with a very broad infuscated blotch; anterior tarsi with 
t ie tip of the fourth segment black, last segment dark at tip but 
not black; middle tarsi similar; hind tarsi all dark but the distal 
mlf of the third and the two succeeding ones all black; hairs on 
ventral surface bright golden brown. 
d he female differs from the male in having the legs decidedly 
pa ci the hind tarsi with the last two segments black, the second 
tmd with the tips only black. The thoracic and abdominal 
ai mgs, and also the form and strongly pubescent character of the 
V terminal segment of the antennae are specifically the same as 
in the male. 3 
escribed fiom four examples, three males and one female. Om 
m C ™ as ta ^ en at Kasongo, Congo Free State, 6th February, 1 904 
„ n ?'. Ut , ton and Todd), one at Sunyani, Ashanti, 5th March, 1910, 
and the third at Atroni, W. Ashanti, 16th August, 1910 (Dr. A. 
i>V lorn . The only female I have yet seen was taken at Odumase, 
Wm Ashant1 ’ 2 ^ th April. 1910, by Dr. A. Kmghorn. 
