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Mule. — Lenglli 3o.5 - 3^ njm.; wiug i8.5 - ao mm.; abdomen 

 alone, aô-aô mm. 



Female. — Lenglli 3i.o mm.; wing, 91. 5 mm.; abdomen alone about 

 26 mm. 



Rosti'um and [)alpi daik brown. Anlennae A\ith (lie elongate basai seg- 

 mont dark In-onn, ibe lemainder of fbe antennac light browu; basai 

 flagellar segments globular to oval. Head dark reddisb browu. 



Mesouotal praescutum reddish brown wilh four darker browu slripes, 

 the narrow iutermedialo ])air iudistinclly divided by a pale line; in the 

 maie paratype ibe médian stiipe is cntire so ihat but Ibree indistinct 

 sti'ipes are évident. Pleura light browu, sparsely gray pruiuose. Haltères 

 reddish browu, the knobs dark brown. Legs with the co\ae and trochau- 

 ters dull yellow; femora reddish browu with a very indistinct paler ring 

 before ihe tip; tibiae reddish browu, the tips darkened, beyond the base 

 with a distinct light yeiiow ring; tarsi broken. AAings tinged wilh ralher 

 dark brown, the costal cell even darker; small, indistinct brown clonds 

 al the origin of /ts, fork of /«s and fork of/t2+3; narrow and indistinct 

 seams along the cord and outer end of cell 1 st Mi, Venation : As in 

 L. (ij ricana but cell i st M2 note quite so elongate; Cm 2 shorter than the 

 deflection of Cu 1 . 



Abdomen very long and slender, the tergifes reddish brown, ringed 

 caudally with dark brown and laterally with a broad black line that is 

 interrupted at the base and apex of eacli segment; seventh tergile wilh a 

 broad black médian line; eighlh tergile concealed beneath the seventh: 

 uiuth tergite lumid, sliiny black; sternites dull yellow,' brighter laterally, 

 narrowly ringed caudally w ith dark brown , on sternites tîve to seven w ilh 

 a linear black médian mark; slernile eight brownish black, margined 

 caudally with paler; ninth pleurile and the appendages reddish brown. 

 Maie hypopygium with the ninth tergite lumid, the dorsal surface with an 

 indistinct shield-shaped depressed area on the posterior lialf, tlie caudal 

 margin feebly notched medially; outer pleural appendage stout, dark 

 colored, the acute apex short; inner pleural appendage stout, the apex 

 broadly rounded. 



HabiUtt. — French Congo. 



Holotype, (j , Libreville, 1901 (C. Chalol). 



Allotopotype, 9, 1899 (J. Boucher). 



Paratopotypes , 1 d*, 1 sex uncertain, wilh ihe allolype. 



Type in the Paris Muséum. 



Lecteria atncauda is very similar in gênerai appearance to L. ajrlcnua 

 Alexander (Belgian Congo) which has a distinct dark brotvn médian line 



