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Figure 30. — Scenopinus bouvieri (Seguy), female: a, wing; missing portions filled in by 

 dashed lines; b, c, lateral and frontal aspects of head; d, enlarged detail of antenna; e, 

 ventral aspect of 8th sternum; /, lateral aspect of 8th and 9th segments; g, 9th sternum and 

 bursa. 



Atlantic. The type specimen is teneral and a good deal smaller than the 

 average. The ground color of other specimens is black or black-brown. 

 The antennae are colored as follows: first segment brown; second 

 brown-orange; third brown-orange at base darkening to black-brown 

 at tip. Halter tan dorsally and white ventrally. Front and middle legs 

 black-brown with first four tarsal segments yellow-brown and last 

 segment red-brown; hind leg with tarsi entirely red-brown. 



Male — Unknown. 



Length: Female body 3-4.5 mm., wing 2.2-3 mm. 



Type-locality: Waboniland, East Africa. 



Type: (NMV). 



Material examined: 19, Njala, Sierra Leone, 1926 (E. Hargreaves) 

 (ZMUH) ; 19, Lihete Sllomele, Congo Beige, July 1936 (J. Ghesquiere) 

 (IRSNB); 499, Njala, Sierra Leone, 1926, March 1936, April 1936 

 (E. Hargreaves); Moramba, Sierra Leone, 27 February 1925 (E. 

 Hargreaves) ; 19, laboratory, Accra, Gold Coast, March 1920 (J. W. S. 

 Macfie); 19, Bembay, Senegal, February 1940 (J. Risbec); 19, Cico, 

 Nyasaland, April 1916 (R. C. Wood) ; 19, Chipinda Pools, S. Rhodesia 

 (lower Lundi River), 23 October 1960 (R. Goocher); all in (BMNH). 



