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fringe with a pale area at the junction of all the veins. First sub- 

 marginal cell considerably longer and a little narrower than the 

 second posterior cell, its base nearer the base of the wing, its stem 

 about one-fourth the length of the cell ; stem of the second posterior 

 cell rather more than two-thirds the length of the cell ; supernumerary 

 cross-vein a little behind the mid, the posterior about its own length 

 distant behind the mid ; posterior border-scales of the fringe long, 

 narrow, and curved. Lengtb, 5 mm. 



Habitat. Bihe, Angola (Dr. Creighton Wellman). 



Observations. — Described from a single perfect female. The 

 chief characters are in the thoracic squamose structures and 

 marked wing ornamentation. 



Genus Danielsia, Theobald. 

 (The 'Entomologist,' p. 78, March, 1904.) 



Danielsia wellmanii, n. sp. 



Head creamy white, with two median black spots. Palpi and 

 proboscis brown. Thorax deep brown, with a broad creamy area on 

 each side, expanding in front, and passing around the front of the 

 mesonotum, and with a short creamy median line arising from the pale 

 anterior area ; numerous golden brown bristles posteriorly. Abdomen 

 black, with basal white lateral spots on basal segments, becoming 

 median on the apical ones. Legs deep brown, front pair unbanded, 

 mid and hind with a broad basal pale band to the metatarsi and first 

 tarsal segments. 



? . Head deep brown, with rather loosely applied flat creamy 

 scales, with two large patches of flat dark scales above, and with 

 creamy narrow-curved scales behind. Clypeus and proboscis black ; 

 palpi rather long, black ; antennas black, with indistinct narrow grey 

 bands. Thorax black, clothed with narrow-curved bronzy-brown 

 scales, with a broad creamy scaled area on each side, which expands 

 anteriorly, and which meets around the front, and sends a narrow 

 short median line of creamy scales into the brown area ; a few pale 

 scales in front of the scutellum and numerous golden brown bristles 

 over the roots of the wings ; prothoracic lobes with small flat creamy 

 scales ; scutellum with rather broad narrow -curved scales, narrowest on 

 the lateral lobes ; border-bristles bright golden brown ; mesonotum 

 black ; pleura? with white puncta. Abdomen black, with deep violet 

 reflections ; the basal segments with basal white lateral spots, which 

 become median on the last two or three segments, the latter having a 

 few white scales extending on to the dorsum and in the middle, but 

 not forming bands ; border-bristles small, pale golden. Venter with 

 basal white bands. Legs deep blackish brown, the front pair with 

 only a faint trace of a pale band at the base of the metatarsus ; the 

 mid and hind with a broad white basal band to the metatarsi and first 

 tarsus ; venter of base of fore and mid femora white ; base of hind 

 femora white, and white knee-spot. Ungues uniserrated, the tooth 

 long. Wings with the first submarginal longer and narrower than 

 the second posterior cell, its stem nearly two-thirds the length of the 

 cell ; stem of the second posterior as long as the cell ; posterior cross- 



