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moderately narrowed at the base and apex; arcuate at tlie sides, with 
no lateral ridge; the front margin nearly straight, the anterior angles 
not prominent, the base slightly bowed. Elytra not quite twice as 
broad as the thorax, oblong-ovate, moderately convex ; each elytron 
with three zigzag shining costae (two dorsal, one lateral), the inter¬ 
stices plicate and rugulose; the suture not costiform. The sides of 
the elytra shining, the surface uneven and sparingly punctured. 
Prosternal process closely and rather strongly punctured; the meso- 
and metasterna less so. Abdomen dull, very finely punctured, the 
punctuation of the apical segment rather stronger. Legs rugose, not 
clothed with paler tomentunr. 
Length 14-15 millim. 
The females are rather broader than the males, especially in the 
elytra, which are more oblong and somewhat flattened dorsally. The 
males have two-very small shining spots on the disk of the thorax 
in front of the middle, and there is an indication of a fine median line. 
I have been in doubt whether to place this species in the genus 
Amiantus or the more recent genus Melanolophus , Fairm. (Faun, et 
FI. des Pays (Jomalis, 1882, p. 69). The general form is, however, 
more that of Melanolophus , but the suture of the elytra is not cos¬ 
tiform. The anterior angles of the thorax are not produced forward 
as in Amiantus. The antennas are rather shorter than in either of 
these genera. 
HYMENOPTER A, ORTHOPTERA, Ac. 
The other Insects collected by Mr. Johnston do not present any¬ 
thing remarkable. There is, however, a very fine specimen of Mantis 
(Idolum diabolieum , Saussure), of which a male example in the 
British Museum is from the White Nile. 
LIST OF BIRDS COLLECTED OR OBSERVED ON 
KILIMA-NJARO AND ITS VICINITY. 3 
By Captain G. E. Shelley, F.Z.S., and Mr. H, H. Johnston, E.Z.S. 
*** Those birds which were only observed by the author, and the skins 
of which were not obtained, have their numbers inserted in brackets. 
1. Alseonax minima (Heugl.). 
Muscicapa minima , Heugl. Orn. N. O.-Afr. p. 435, pi. 18. f. 1. S , 
4000 feet; 8 , 6000 feet; $ , 7000 feet. 
3 The collection contains examples of fifty species, including the 
following six considered to be new to science :— Muscicapa Johnstoni , 
Pinarochroa hypospodia, Pratincola axillaris , Nectarinia Johnstoni, 
N. Jcilimensis , and Cynniris mediocris. 
