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ocelli five times as far from the eye margin as the distance between 

 them ; vertex and front shining, with a few lateral punctures ; antennae 

 about 43-jointed; joints 1-4 of flagcllum subequal, the remainder suc- 

 cessively shorter, all much longer than broad. 



Mesonotum with deep crenulate parapsidal furrows converging be • 

 Iiind and meeting a little in front of the prescutellar sulcus; anterior 

 margins of the lateral lobes with a shallow crenulate marginal furrow ; 

 mesopleura with an anterior crenulate sulcus meeting the crenulate 

 sternopleural sulcus at right angles; prescutellar sulcus divided into 

 4-6 pits by carinae ; propodeum reticulate-areolate, with a longitudinal 

 median carina imperfectly indicated for its anterior third. 



Abdomen smooth and shining, slightly compressed, about as long 

 as the head and thorax together, its sides nearly parallel ; tirst tergite 

 about twice as long as wide at apex, with a median area limiced for 

 about two-thirds of its length from the base by carinae, smooth basally. 

 aciculate apically ; the rest of the tergites smooth and highly polished, 

 shining, only the anterior sulcus of the second distinct, th's smooth and 

 very narrowly interrupted in the middle ; connate second and third ter- 

 gites about one and one-half times as long as broad, about as long as 

 the rest of the abdomen beyond ; ovipositor about as long as the head, 

 thorax and abdomen together. 



Length 3.5, ovipositor 3.5. wing 3.75 mm. 



$ similar to the 9 ; apical segments of the abdomen often black- 

 ish. The apex of the abdomen is rounded, not widened to the r.nex and 

 truncate as in H. habilis. 



Described from 29 5 and 4 S V)red, with many others, 

 from various frnit flies of the genera Dacus and Ceratiiis at 

 Oloke Meji, Ibadan Xigeria, Angnst-Xovember, 191-I-. 



Type 9 , allotype $ and paratypes in the collection of the 

 Hawaiian Board of Agricnltnre and Forestry; paratypes in the 

 anthor's collection. 



It is with some hesitation that this species and the follow- 

 ing are referred to Jledi/Jus. since the female of //. Iiiihihs 

 Marshall is still imde.scribcd and there is some little divergence 

 in the abdominal characters of that species from desideratum,^ 

 dypeatus and Giffardi Silvestri. The stigma is broadly lanceo- 

 late ; the first abscissa of the radins is about -one half the length 

 of the second ; the cubitus is continued beyond the second cu- 

 bital cell the discoidal cells are com])letely closed. The- para- 

 psidal furrows are stronger and crenulate in the African sjjc- 

 cies and the })Ctiole is by no means subliiiear. IIo\>-ever, they 



