Trupheoneura. 137 



Female. Frons somewhat broader than high, black, a little 

 shining; bristles somewhat strong, the middle row slightly, the 

 anterior distinctly convex. Antennæ black or brownish black, third 

 joint small; arista pubescent. Palpi yellow, of ordinary size and 

 armature; clypeus somewhat protruding, shining. Thorax black, 

 sometimes with a slight reddish hue and the humeri reddish; it is a 

 little shining, with black pubescence, rather conspicuous behind, 

 and with one pair of dorsocentral bristles, Scutellum with two bristles. 

 Pleura blackish, brownish behind and below. Abdomen blackish, 

 a little greyish, dull; it is sparingly hairy, the hairs best visible at the 



Fig. 52. Wing of T. luteifemorata $. 



sides; the sixth segment has a chitinised, semicircular, densely hairy 

 sternite, the seventh sternite is triangularly pointed and drawn out 

 into a narrow, upwards curved process, hairy below. Legs yellowish 

 or brownish yellow, the hind legs the darkest; front tibiæ with a 

 dorsal bristle above the middle, middle tibiæ with a pair at the upper 

 third and a small anterior bristle at apex, hind tibiæ with two antero- 

 dorsal bristles, one above the middle and one smaller at apex; the 

 upper bristles on middle and hind tibiæ not weak. Wings rather 

 brownish tinged ; veins brown ; costa reaching well beyond the middle, 

 thickened from the uniting with the first vein to the end; 1 about 

 equal to 2+3; fork rather long, the angle somewhat acute; costal 

 cilia moderately short; fourth vein issuing a little beyond the base 

 of the fork, rather curved in its first part, for the rest nearly straight; 

 seventh vein weak and short, ending abruptly about half way to the 

 margin. H alteres yellow or dirty yellow. 



Length 2 mm. 



The male of this species has never been described; when Wood 

 described the species he had only the female, but he must later on 

 have got the male for in 1914 (1. c.) he gives, when describing T. con- 

 nexa, some remarks about the male of luteifemorata and says here 



