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The speeies of this geiiiis are not mimerous ; only two so far are 

 kiiowu from the Palaearctic Région, the type S. fristis Lw. ( = ,v/- 

 c/ila Rond.) and our Egyptian S. parcpguttdta Betk. ; tlie remainder 

 are from the Ethiopian and Oriental Régions. 



SPATFIULINA PARCEGUÏTATA Becker. 

 (PI. IV fig. 5) 



Beck.. Mitteil. Zool. Mus. Berlin, II 134. T. 4d, f. 48 

 {(t.njuii) (U)()3); Bez., Bull. Entoni. Research, IX. I. 2!) (liJlS). 



DIAGNOSIS: — A sniall pretty speeies, distinguished hy the 

 wings which are hlack with their hasal fourth hyaline and with .soine 

 hyaline spots on the black area; the absence of the a. .^c. ; the hlack 

 abdomen, and flat, shining black ovipositor. 



Maie and Female. Length of body 3 — 3.4 nnn. ; ()vi])osit()r : 

 0.8 mm.; wing : 2.7—3 mm 



D^JSCRIPTION— Head entirely reddish-yellow with a very 

 délicate white tomentum on the latéral margins of the frons, which 

 extends downwards eovering the face and cheeks; antennae reddish- 

 yellow, with the second joint bearing some minute blackish bristly 

 hairs; arista dark brown except at the basB which is reddish-yellow. 



Thorax and scutellum black, with a dense pulverulence, which 

 is yellowish on the dise and cinereous on the pleurae and meso- 

 phragma; the bristles are black except the .sr7>.,the po.sterior npl. and 

 the pt. which are yellow; in addition thèse two latter are accom- 

 ])anied by some yellowish bristly hairs; the pubescence is yellow; 

 scattei-ed and adpressed but somewhat longer and erect on the an- 

 teridr margin of the dise and ])aler on the pleurae, especially on the 

 sterno])leurae. 



Abdonien entirely sliiniiig blaik with a faiut greenish irri- 

 descence and with pubescence and bristles of the same colour. Female 

 ovipositor flat, conical and shining black, of médium length, its 

 basai segment being about equal to the length of the three apical 

 .segments of the abdomen together. 



Legs entirely reddish-yellow. Squamulae whitish; haltères yel- 

 low. 



Wings rather narrow and elongate, blackish-brown except the 

 liase which is hyaline to the middle of 2nd C cell, the bifurcation 

 of R2 + 3 and R4 + 5 and two thirds of Cu cell; the blackish-brown 

 area possesses some hyaline spots as follows : one immediately before 

 the stigma, more or less large and rounded, running into a second 

 smaller spot in the base of RI cell ; in this cell there are three other 



