Genus Panoplites. 189 
spots very clearly, others scarcely at all, in some th*e apex of the 
abdomen is mostly white scaled. 
One specimen from Zomba (B.C.A.) differs so much in 
thoracic ornamentation that I describe it as a distinct variety. 
This Panoplites is evidently widely distributed over the West 
Coast and centre of Africa. Dr. Daniels has found it to be the 
Filaria-bearing species on the Zambesi and Lake JSTyassa. 
Yar. A, reversus. 
Thorax ornamented as follows: silvery scales in the middle, 
a broad golden-brown scaled line on each side, extending down to 
the bare space in front of the scutellum, then pale creamy scales 
forming another lateral broad line, and then more lateral 
golden-brown scales; the six median golden-brown border-bristles 
of the scutellum are arranged in two patches, three on each side. 
The posterior cross-vein is quite three times its own length 
distant from the mid cross-vein. 
Length .—4 * 5 mm. 
Habitat .—British Central Africa, Zomba (Gray) (83). 
Time of capture. —June. 
Observations .—A single 9? sen ^ by Dr. Gray, differs in the 
above respects from the type. As it occurs in the same locality 
and presents such a marked resemblance to P. Africanus, T think 
it can only be treated as a variety of that species, the only real 
structural difference being the greater distance of the posterior 
cross-vein from the mid cross-vein. The scale ornamentation of 
the thorax is just the same in arrangement, only the colours are 
reversed. 
The remnant of a specimen of this genus has been sent from 
Queensland by Dr. Bancroft (25. 5. 99). 
