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43. Scenopinus limpidipennis Loew 



Scenopinus limpidipennis Loew, 1874, p. 416. 



The type and allotype of this small species from Persia have not 

 been located so no additional information concerning the species can 

 be given. 



Length: Male body 1% mm., wing 1}^ mm.; female body 2 mm. 



Type-locality: Schahrud, Iran (Persia). 



Type deposited: ? (not in Berlin). 



44. Scenopinus lucidus Becker 



Figure 43 

 Scenopinus lucidus Becker, 1902, p. 39. 



This species has been returned to the genus Scenopinus from 

 Lucidomphrale Krober because of its complete agreement with the 

 members of the Albicinctus group. Its distinguishing feature, the 

 long aedeagal parameres of the male, serves as a good species char- 

 acter. The female agrees in all ways with Scenopinus and with the 

 characters of the Albicinctus group. One specimen was identified by 

 Krober as S. glahrijrons, which it only superficially resembles; this 

 gives some idea of how difficult is the identification of females. 



The details of the eighth sternum and particularly the bursa serve 

 to characterize the female. Just posterior to the membranous portion 

 of the bursa, on the midline, is a shell-like structure, that extends 

 down from the roof of the biu-sa, which is characteristic of this species. 

 (Hardy, 1960, p. 326-328 gives a good description of this species.) 



Length: Male body 2.3-3 mm., wing 2-2.5 mm.; female body 

 3.5-4 mm., wing 2.5-3.3 mm. 



Type-locality: Mariout, Egypt. 



Type: (ZMH). 



Material examined from: Hawaii (USNM) (PHT) ; Meadi, Egypt, 

 24 April 1917, (Efflatoun) (SEE) ; Christmas Island, November 1957, 

 (F. L. HUl), Elizabethville, Belgian Congo, (BMNH); Cape Verde 

 Islands (ZMUH) ; also from Algeria, Uganda, and northern Nigeria. 



45. Scenopinus madagascariensis Enderlein 



Figure 44 



Scenopimis madagascariensis Enderlein, 1934, p. 429. 



Female. — Head, cream below, black on upper frons and back of 

 head; eyes red-brown, a very narrow postocular rim fringed with 

 hairs; frons pollinose, granular, covered with short hairs, lower half 

 orange, extending dorsally between ventral extensions of black-brown 



