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thoracic disc, their femora extending to anus (4i mm. in length) and 

 exactly as long as tibiae ; hind tarsi slender, cylindrical and fully as 

 long in , or longer (1(U mm.) in $, than the whole body, sparsely 

 and strongly setiferous and pilose with base of all joints glabrous, 

 their claws simple but apical half of unguiculi stoutly pectinate 

 laterally and below ; all the claws straight and apically attenuate, the 

 anterior alone basally pectinate. Wings ample ; stigma obsolete ; 

 inner cubital cell apically acute ; areolet wanting ; the strongly oblique 

 iutercubital nervure receiving second recurrent, inner and outer cubital 

 uervures at a common point ; sinus iufumate ; uervellus strongly 

 geniculate at its upper fourth. 



SKIAPUS COALESCENS, sp. nov. 



c? 9 . -A- bright flavous species, with extreme mandibular apices, 

 ocellar region, the central occipital impression, antennae except 

 underside of scape, three mesouotal vittae, a radical dot, spicula and its 

 valvulae except apically, and whole of hind tibiae and tarsi, black ; 

 stigma and uervures infuscate, with centre of the former rufescent ; 

 wings subhyaliue, evenly and but very slightly infumate throughout. 

 Length, 8-10 mm. 



The type of this remarkable tribe and genus is in my collection ; it 

 was captured at Stella Bush, near Durban, in Natal, by H. W. Bell 

 Maiiey during April, 1915. I do not anticipate that the species is 

 rare, for W. E. Jones has found it at Mfongosi in Zululaud in May, 

 1916, F. Muir about Durban in 1902 (in coll. Mus. Brit.), and 

 S. A. Neave considerably extended its known range by his 

 discovery of the unique male on February 4th, 1913, at Mluuje in 

 Nyassalaud. 



SUBFAMILY TRYPHON1NAE. 

 TKIOE BASSIDES. 



BASSUS, Fall. 

 Specimen. Hym. 1813. 



BASSUS LAETATOEIUS, Fab. 



Cam. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. v, 1906, p. 131. 

 Mori. loc. cit. xv, 1916, p. 391. 



This cosmopolitan species has now penetrated to Zululand, where 

 W. E. Jones took it at Mfougosi during April, 1916. 



