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tibiae red-brown, tarsi light red-brown anteriorly, posterior legs with 

 yellow-brown tarsi. 



Abdomen dark red-brown, with short reddish hairs, broad and thick, 

 tip of abdomen blunt; see figure for details. 



Krober gives the length of the male as 7 mm. and the wing-spread as 

 8 mm. Measurements made by me are as follows: 



Length: Male body 5 mm., wing 3.6 mm.; female body 5.4 mm., 

 wing 4 mm. 



Type-locality : Paraguay. 



Type: (MNH) lost. 



I have seen several specimens from Nova Teutonia, Brazil, 27°11' S. 

 52°23' W.; 15 April, 30 November, and 18 December 1959 (Fritz 

 Plaumann) (CNC). Several from the same locality and collector in 

 (BMNH), as well as specimens from Bemberg, Misiones, Argentina, 

 14 March 1945 (Hayward, Willink, V. Golbach) and a specimen labeled 

 Patagonia (BMNH). 



149. Metatrichia stevensoni (Bezzi), new combination 



Figure 143 



Pseudomphrale stevensoni Bezzi, 1925, p. 96. 

 Pseudomphrale africana Lindner, 1962, p. 2. 



This species from Africa is characterized in the male by the peculiar 

 markings on the abdomen, each segment having a posterior white 

 border and an anterolateral white spot. Lindner redescribed the 

 species as P. africana in 1962 and figured the abdomen. I am placing 

 the Lindner name in synonomy as it disagrees with Bezzi's type only 

 in the detail of the tip of the wing which is more elongated than in 

 Lindner's specimen. 



The females I am assigning to this species come from western Africa. 

 On the basis of general wing characters, however, and using the dis- 

 tributional pattern of M. bulbosa in North America, I believe this 

 placement correct. 



Female. — Head black, eyes black-brown; frons broad, granular, 

 covered with short anteriorly directed silver}^ scales, as is the mod- 

 erately wide postocular ridge. Mouthparts large and well developed, 

 postgenal area behind eyes orange, ocellar tubercle set off but not 

 prominent, ocelli red. Antennae with first segment brown, twice as 

 long as the second; second segment brown, short; third segment orange 

 at base, black at tip, truncated, twice as long as first two combined. 

 The frontal area does not project in this species as it does in M. 

 bulbosa and M. robusta. 



Thorax dorsum black, very granular with a close pile of narrow 

 scales, humeral and supra-alar calli orange, scutellum orange-brown, 



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