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into three erect contiguous, tuberculous processes. Legs short, thick ; 

 hind tibiae with four black spines at apex., Forewings very large, 

 two and a half times as long as broad, acutely pointed at apex, 

 costal margin more strongly arched ; marginal cells unusually large, 

 subequal ; Cu very short; pterostigma more opaque than rest of wing 



Macrohomotoma nyasae (Newstead). A, head, dorsal view; B, forceps of male, 

 posterior view; C, male genitalia, lateral view; D, forewing. 



surface; primary furcation very near to base of wing. (I find no 

 traces of the supernumerary vein between Rs and the pterostigma, 

 as shown by NeWstead. Either he examined an anomolous wing or 

 else examined the wing on the insect and mistook the costa of the 

 hind wing beneath for this vein.) Hind wings small, transparent. 



Abdomen large ; male anal valve about as long as forceps, cylin- 

 drical and truncate at apex, with the anus occupying most of trun- 

 cate surface ; with a long, lateral, sinuate prolongation extending 

 caudad to base of forceps (cf. fig. C). Forceps long, stout, acutely 

 pointed at apex, carinate at base on outside ; pubescence conspicuous. 

 Female genital segment long and very slender, longer than rest of 

 abdomen, dorsal valve longer than ventral, both acute at tip. 



Described from one male and one female, collected at Lou- 

 rengo Marquez, Portuguese East Africa (C. W. Howard), 

 on leaves and fruit of Ficus sp., July 13, 1908. A thick, white, 



