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Thorax black with short sparse hairs directed posteriorly, humeral 

 and supra-alar calli orange; posterior margin of scutellum orange. 

 Wings brown, veins dark brown; halter stem brown, knob red-brown 

 above, cream below. Legs orange-brown, except tips of tarsi brown, 

 hind legs darker. 



Abdomen dark red-brown, hairy; see figure for details of 8th sternum 

 and bursa. 



Length: Female 5.5 mm., wing 4.2 mm. 



Type-locality: Verbosca and Brusji in Lesina, Yugoslavia, July. 



Type: Lost. 



Specimen figured, one of 4 females reared from larvae, Kitzbuhel, 

 Austria; end of May 1952 (NMV). 



12. Scenopinus microgaster (Seguy) 



Figure 13 



Omphrale microgaster Seguy, 1948, p. 155. 



This species from South China is characterized by the very short 

 abdomen of both male and female. 



Male. — Frons rugose with a median depression above a narrow 

 transverse ridge above the antennae. Antennae short and pear-shaped. 

 Wings smoky brown, veins brown; three narrow white bands across the 

 abdomen. 



Female. — Frons with a slightly elevated central ridge with incurv- 

 ing lower side pieces along upper two thirds, a slight dimple in the 

 median groove above a central depression. For details of the eighth 

 sternum and bursa see figure. 



Length: Male body 3.25 mm., wing 2.75 mm. ; female body 4 mm. 



Type-locahty: Kouy (Kouri) Tcheou, China; 1921 (Cavalerie). 



Type and allotype: (MNHN). 



13. Scenopinus nidorcaupiilus, new species 

 Figure 14 



This is a large species much like S . fenestralis except for the antennae 

 which are short and broad. 



Female. — Head black, eyes black-brown; postocular ridge moder- 

 ately wide and ])olished; front roughened except shining at eye mar- 

 gins, shallow median groove above the antennae with a slight swelling 

 on either side; mouthparts dark brown, hairy; palpi less than half as 

 long as the oral opening, flattened, paddlelike. Ocellar tubercle black, 

 not prominent, median ocellus depressed into the front. Antennal seg- 

 ments black-brown, second shorter than first, segment 3 twice as long 

 as 1 and 2 combined, wide at base with a rounded tip. 



