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Type-locality: Fort de Kock, Sumatra; December 1920 (E. 

 Jacobson) . 



Types and para types: (ZMUA). 



52. Scenopinus palmulapalpus, new species 



Figure 51 



Female. — Robust; head black-brown; eyes black-brown, with 

 little or no postocular flange; frons much broader than the ocellar 

 triangle, slightly swollen above the antennae into two bulges separated 

 by a shallow groove leading to a shallow depression, appearing shining 

 but in reality slightly granular. Ocellar triangle not set off; ocelli 

 orange. Face silvery pilose laterad of antennae. Mouthparts well 

 developed; palpi over half as long as oral opening, broadly flattened 

 (paddle-like), covered with a velvety pile. First and second antennal 

 segments red-brown, third segment orange-brown at base darkening 

 at tip, about three times as long as broad. 



Thorax dorsum black, rugose, transversely striated; posterior tip 

 of humeral callus and supra-alar callus yellow-brown; pleural areas 

 black-brown. Wings brown fumose, veins brown, vein Ml +2 bending 

 forward to close cell R5 with a bottleneck; halter stem brown; knob 

 red-brown, shining. Fore leg with coxa to tarsus yellow-brown; 

 middle leg light brown; hind leg coxa to tibia red-brown, tarsus light 

 brown. 



Abdomen red-brown, eighth segment hairy; see figure for details 

 of sternum and bursal plates. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Length: Female body 3.4-3.8 mm., wing 2.3-2.7 mm. 



Type-locality: Pietermaritzburg, Natal; 2 April 1918, (Harden- 

 berg). 



Holotype: Female (NMP). 



Paratypes: 29 9, Pietermaritzburg, 17 November 1952, (B. Stuc- 

 kenberg) 16 February 1956, (B. Stuckenberg) , (NMP); 1 9, Pieter- 

 maritzburg, 16 November 1954, (B. Stuckenberg) (USNM). 



53. Scenopinus papuanus (Krbber) 



Figure 52 



Omphrale papuana Krober, 1912, p. 25. 



Scenopinus niger Grimshaw (not De Geer), 1901, p. 11. — D. E. Hardy, 1958, p. 11. 



Scenopinus zeylanicus Senior-White, 1922-24, p. 205. 



Specimens of this species from Hawaii were for a long time identified 

 as S. niger and it was not until 1958 that Hardy was able to clear up 



