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below the eyes; a triangular pollinose patch, covered with fine hairs, 

 having its base above the antennae and extending to the median 

 ocellus. Ocellar tubercle black, not prominent, ocelli orange-red. 

 Antenna with first segment sliort, black; second short black-brown; 

 third black-brown, over twice as long as first and second combined, 

 pear-shaped and widest at its base. 



Thorax black, shining, with fine hairs; humeral calhis orange-brown. 

 Halter with stem red-brown, knob dark red-brown with a creamy 

 brown band dividing the upper and lower halves. Wings brownish 

 at base but broken off, veins brown. Legs with femora and tibiae dark 

 red-brown, tarsi tan darkening at tips. 



Abdomen red-brown; see figure for details of eighth sternum and 

 bursa. 



Length: Male body 2 mm., wing L5 mm.; female body 2.5 mm., 

 wing missing 



Type-locality: Bolgart, W. Australia; 14 December 1961 (L. B. 

 Britton and A. Douglas). 



Holotype: Male and female allotype (BMNH) 



30. Scenopinus bouvieri (Seguy) 



Figure 30 



Omphrale bouvieri S6guy, 1920, p. 317. 



This species is quite similar to S. balteatus Lamb but differs in 

 details of the frons, the shorter length of the median crossvein, and in 

 details of the eighth sternum. The bursa have similar configurations 

 but differ in minute details. 



The type was taken in Paris from the nest of a pigeon. A specimen 

 examined from Loango, French Congo, agrees in all details with the 

 type and, in line with the agreement in the shape of the bursal cavity 

 with the Albicinctus group, would suggest that this species is pri- 

 marily African in affinities. 



Male — Unknown. 



Length: Female body 3.5 mm., wing 2.5 mm. 



Type-locality: Paris (? introduced from Africa). 



Type: (MNHN). 



Material examined : Female Loango, Foret du Mayrombe, French 

 Congo; 1911 (Vodon) (MNHN). 



31. Scenopinus brunneus (Krbber) 



Figure 31 



Omphrale hiunnea Krobcr, 1913, p. 192. 



This species, described originally from East Africa, appears to be 

 distributed across equatorial Africa from the Indian Ocean to the 



