Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 July 2009
Q.—Length (12 specimens) 9·5 to 12 mm.; width of head 3·5 to 4·4 mm.; width of front at vertex just under 0·5 to just under 0·6 mm.; length of wing 7·75 to 9·8 mm.
† For names and illustrations of colours, see Ridgway, , “A Nomenclature of Colors for Naturalists” (Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1886).Google Scholar
* As regards the markings of the eyes in life, Mr. S. A. Neave, in a field-note attached to a ♂ specimen collected by him at Entebbe, Uganda Protectorate, 5. vii. 1911, writes:—“Eyes banded; blue and crimson below, dusky and grey above”; and Dr. R. Van Someren, in a note on a ♀ caught by him on the Luimi River, Toro, Uganda Protectorate, 22. i. 1911, says that the eye has “ a conspicuous, green, horizontal band.”