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SUB-GEN. TRICHOTKIMICEA, sub-gen, n. 



Antennae with sixteen segments, the flagellar segments gradually 

 narrowed to the end of the organ. Wings with the entire surface 

 pubescent ; vein Sc rather short, ending about opposite mid-length of 

 the sector ; cell 1st M z closed, small ; legs with the pubescence long 

 but not conspicuous, subappressed. 



Type of the sub-genus: Trimicra (Trichotrirnicra) hirtipennis, sp. n. 

 (Southern Ethiopian region). 



The small fly upon which this new group is based bears a strong 

 resemblance to certain species of the genus Ormosia, especially some 

 Holarctic species of the nigripila group ; this resemblance seems to 

 be due largely to analogy, and the real affinities of the insect to 

 be in the vicinity of Trimicra. The comparatively short subcosta 

 and the peculiar structure of the ovipositor will serve to separate this 

 fly from the species of Ormosia that resemble it. 





 TRIMICRA (TRICHOTRIMICRA) HIRTIPENNIS, sp. n. 



General coloration reddish-brown ; wings nearly hyaline, the costal 

 region more yellowish ; wings covered with a short dense pubescence. 



Female. Length about 3'3 mm. ; wing 4'8 mm. 



Rostrum light yellow ; palpi dark brown. Antennae pale brownish 

 testaceous, the flagellar segments cylindrical, covered with a long, 

 coarse, pale pubescence and sparse black verticils ; flagellar segments 

 becoming more slender and a little longer toward the end of the organ. 

 Head pale brownish-yellow, with long erect hairs. 



Pronotum pale, on either side a little tumid, and here provided 

 with a tuft of from eight to ten very long yellow hairs. Mesonotal 

 praescutum uniform reddish-brown, the lateral margins narrowly 

 whitish ; interspaces with long erect yellowish hairs ; pseudosutural 

 foveae pale ; tuberculate pits rather large, located almost on a level 

 with the foveae, separated from one another by a distance that varies 

 from a little less than the diameter of one to nearly twice this distance: 

 scutum dark brown ; scutellum brown, broadly margined caudally with 

 yellowish testaceous ; postnotum brown, very sparsely pruinose. Pleura 

 reddish-brown, sparsely grey pruiuose. Halteres with the stem yellow, 

 the knobs brown. Legs with the coxae and trochanters very pale 

 yellow, provided with long yellow hairs ; femora and tibiae yellow, the 

 pubescence long but subappressed ; tarsi pale, the terminal segments 

 darker. "Wings hyaline, the costal region pale yellow ; stigma indistinct ; 

 veins brown, C, Sc and R pale ; a rather dense pubescence in all the 

 cells of the wing. Venation .- Sc short, ending opposite or very slightly 



