BY G F. HILL. 



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second joints about equal (15), both covered with stiff black hairs, 

 third joint longest (-45) with seven indistinct segments and a ter- 

 minal style (-15 in length) bearing three or four long hairs at the 

 apex; palpi black; mouth parts stramineous; eyes only moderately 

 hairy, clypeus and lower part of frons not projecting, and the 

 ocellar plate projecting only very slightly in front of the eyes 

 (Fig. la). 



Text-fig. 1, 

 Actiiva uictorice, n.sp.; '/, male; c, female. 



Thorax densely covered with long black and short pale hairs; 

 scutellar spines long, bases dark like scutellum, the remainder pale 

 yellow; halteres pale stramineous. 



Legs: fore- and mid-legs dark ochraceous, with second-fifth tar- 

 sals brown ; hind legs similar, but with distal half of femora and 

 tibiae dark brown or suffused with brown. 



Wings light smoky, veins and pterostigma brown, third pos- 

 terior vein extending one-third of the distance to the wing border 

 (Fig. 16). 



Abdomen long and narrow (3*75 long by L'35 wide), the sides 

 clothed with long pale hairs; the greater part of the dorsum of the 

 third, fourth, and fifth segments occupied by a brownish-yellow 

 area, roughly triangular in shape, the apex directed posteriorly. 



$. Total length, 5-0; wing, h40. 



