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over the antennal bases, mouthparts brown, filling the oral cavity; 

 palpi two-thirds as long as mouthparts; back of head concave. An- 

 tennae red-brown; first two segments short subequal; third segment 

 pilose, cupped on end, less than twice as long as wide; see figure for 

 details. 



Thorax dorsum black, covered with small flat gray scales, humeral 

 and supra-alar calli red-brown; pleural areas dark red-brown. Wings 

 black-broAVQ, very dark, veins black-brown, Ml + 2 ending behind the 

 tip of the wing and M3 + Cul ending at the m cross vein; halter stem 

 red-brown, knob orange-brown. Legs orange-brown. 



Abdomen red-brown covered with flat gray scales dorsally, eighth 

 segment with dorsum much longer than sternum, sternum with a 

 brush of long hairs from proximal margin, distal margin turning 

 upward. Ninth segment pendulous, hairy basally; see figure for 

 details. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Length: Female body 3.2 mm., wing 2.4 mm. 



Type-locality: Chinchona, Anamali Hills, S. India; (3500 ft.) 

 May 1950 (P. S. Nathan). 



Holotype: (CNC) 8630. 



197. Seguyella galactica (Seguy), new combination 



Figure 191 

 Omphrale galactica Seguy, 1938, p. 334. 



This species can be distinguished by its peculiar wing venation, 

 the sharply pointed ninth terga and the broadly flaring tenth sternum; 

 the penis consists of two short straight prongs with short constricted 

 tips; see figure for details. 



Length: Male body 1.8 mm., wing 2.2 mm. 



Type-locality: Elgon Saw MUl, Camp II on the east slope, Mt. 

 Elgon (2470 m.), Kenya (C. Aranbourg, P. A. Chappius and 

 R. Jeannel). 



Type: (MNHN). 



198. Seguyella turneri, new species 



Figure 192 



Female. — Head orange-brown; eyes red-brown; frons red-brown, 

 broad and shining, with a lighter median triangle, widest at the base 

 and narrowing to the median ocellus; frons continuous with postocular 

 flange and distance from eye margin to ocellar tubercle nearly as 

 wide as tubercle itself; ocellar tubercle orange-brown, poUiuose; 

 ocelli red-brown. Mouthparts well developed; antennae red-broAvn, 

 first segment short; second twice the size of first; third twice as long as 



