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row, but much shorter, not half the length of the thorax ; 

 sides of thorax with scattered black hairs. Scutellum tes- 

 taceous, with two long black hairs on its posterior margin. 

 Metathorax almost black posteriorly ; pleurae brown. Hal- 

 teres with stout pedicels bearing black hairs ; clubs almost 

 white, with short stout black hairs. xVbdonien of. seven seg- 

 ments, the posterior portion of each segment being dark- 

 yellow. Forceps of male black, covered with black hairs. 

 Legs long and slender; coxae very light yellow, with black 

 hairs ; fen)ora, tibiae, and tarsi darker, more densely covered 

 with hairs ; a few short black spines on the tibiae, and shorter 

 ones on the tarsi ; spurs black, but rather short. Wings 

 smoky, covered with black hairs. Auxiliary vein rather famt, 

 rather more than one-third the length of the wing ; first 

 longitudinal ending rather near the apex of the wing ; second 

 longitudinal ending in costa slightly before apex of wing ; 

 costa continued to apex ; subcostal cross-vem below apex of 

 auxiliary ; anterior branch of third longitudinal disappears 

 about half-way from the fork to the margin of the wing ; pos- 

 terior branch very faint ; anterior branch of first longitudinal 

 almost straight, posterior rather wavy ; fifth longitudinal 

 straight, but not nearly reaching the margin. 



I have only one specimen of this insect, and, unfortunately, 

 the antennae are not entire. The peculiarities of its neuration 

 perhaps entitle it to be the type-species of a new genus. 



Sciophila (!) hirta, n. sp. Plate IX., fig. 5. 



Size of body, 0-132 x 0-030 ; expanse of wing, 0-165 x 

 0-069. 



Antennae not perfect ; joints of scapus dark-brown, nearly 

 cylindrical, breadth nearly as great as their length ; flagellum 

 nearly cylindrical, no appreciable gap separating the joints, 

 covered all over with a soft light-yellow pubescence. Palpi 

 very slender but not long, light-yellow. Vertex black and 

 shining. Thorax black and shining, a dark-yellow humeral 

 patch on each anterior corner, behind which there is a patch 

 of long black hairs. Abdomen black and shining, and covered 

 with a close coating of stiff black hairs. Legs leather slender; 

 coxae pale-yellow at the base but darker at the tip, covered 

 with black hairs; femora dark-yellow, clothed with black 

 hairs; tibiae dark -brown, considerably dilated at the ex- 

 tremity, marked with longitudinal rows of black hairs, with 

 spines at intervals ; spurs very light yellow ; tarsi much 

 darker and more densely clothed with black hairs than the 

 tibiae. Wings light-browm, becoming much darker at the first 

 longitudinal vein ; surface covered with scattered black hairs. 

 Auxiliary vein ending blindly, not extending as far as the 

 transverse vein ; first longitudinal extending about four-fifths 



