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JAMES WATERSTON. 



projecting beyond the costa along the marginal and post-marginal combined, and the 

 radius has four-five bristles and three cells. Hind wings rather over three times as 

 long as broad; length, 1mm.; breadth, '3 mm. ; the submarginal cell narrow 

 and long (the venation extending to nearly seven-tenths of the costa), with a single 

 row of minute bristles on the apical two-fifths. 



Legs : Fore legs : coxae elongate (two-thirds of the femur and one-third longer 

 than the tibia), oblong (2:1), a httle broader basally, where there are a few stifi 

 bristles on the postero-ventral half, otherwise bare ; femur (5 : 3), much swollen 

 dorsally, practically bare ; tibia (2:1) swollen, triangular, broad apically, with three 

 stout external teeth placed longitudinally at the apex ; the sub-apical spur strong, 

 much curved, distinctly bifid ; a few scattered short bristles on both aspects, and 

 rows (of about six each) both dorsal and ventral, two or three bristles behind the spur 

 being stronger. Mid legs normal ; first tibial spur distinctly subapical. Hind legs 

 (fig. 4) similar to the fore legs, the coxae being of the same length but stouter (4:3); 



Fig. 4. Hind femur aiul tibia of (a) Sycophaga si/coniori, L., § ; 

 {b) S. cijclostigma, sp. n., $. 



the femur shorter (5 : 4) than the fore femur, but stouter ; the tibia and tarsus much 

 more developed. The antero-apical comb contains four or five teeth, and the anterior 

 spur is also tooth-hke, the posterior being a stout, sharp spine. At about one-third 

 from the base are the three (sensory ?) structures figured ; the upper surface of the 

 chitin appears to be ovally excavated, and there is a similar, more truncate hollow on 

 the internal surface, set at right angles to the first. 



Abdomen with the caudal stigmata small and circular, separated by about seven 

 times their own diameter. 



Length (excluding ovipositor), about 2 mm. ; alar expanse, over 3| mm. 



Southern Rhodesia : Salisbury, 24.xii.13, in wild figs. {R. W. Jack). 



Holotype $ in the British Museum. 



In the genotype S. sycomori, L., the caudal stigmata are very large, oval, a little 

 narrowed anteriorly and separated by about 1^ diameters. I have examined 

 S. sycomori from various localities from Greece to Egypt. S. cyclostigma is possibly 



