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distally. Basal portion of vein bare save for two minute bristles ; open area bare. 

 About twenty-five short bristles on the distal third, where the vein bears two non- 

 setigerous pustules. Frenulum consisting of a stout spine and two hooks, with nine 

 or ten minute bristles behind. 



Legs rather long ; all the coxae (particularly the hind pair) extremely coarsely 

 raised-reticulate, surfaces of femora and tibiae reticulate with long cells ; apical spurs 

 of all the tibiae short. Fore legs : coxae elongate (2:1) about seven- tenths of the 

 femur in length ; pattern of femora posteriorly coarse. Tibial comb reduced to four 

 separate spines, no speciahsed comb on first tarsal joint. In the hind femur there are 

 subdorsal and ventral rows of 9-10 bristles, but the surface is otherwise bare, while 

 posteriorly there is in addition a submedian row of eight bristles ; 15-16 strong 

 spinose bristles in the comb. 



Proportions of tarsal joints (excluding claws) : — 



i. ii. 



Front .... 35 40 



Mid 65 55 



Hind .... 55 60 



Abdomen elongate, flat, hardly carinate below ; posterior edges of tergites 1-4 

 medianly convex ; of 5 concave. Tergite 6 much the longest ; 2-4 subequal ; 

 1 longer ; 7 very minute. 



Length, nearly 3| mm. ; alar expanse about 5| mm. 



Holotype — $ in the British Museum. 



Bhodesia : Salisbury {R. W. Jack). 



One of a pair bred from an Erotylid beetle {Barharo'pus 'paradoxus, OUiff ) ; emerged 

 22.xi.15. 



