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A NEW PARASITE BRED FROM GLOSSINA MORSITANS IN NYASALAND. 



By R. E. Turner and James Waterston. 



Family Bethylidae. 

 Prolaelius glossinae, sp. nov. 



$. Nigra ; scapo apice, flagello articulo primo, tibiis tarsisque anticis brunueo- 

 testaceis ; alis medio late leviterque infuscatis ; basi et marginibus hyalinis. 



Head as long as the greatest breadth, narrowed both in front of and behind the eyes ; 

 opaque, very finely and shallowly reticulate, with sparse piliferous punctures. Eyes 

 separated across the frons by twice the diameter of either and situated nearer to the 

 base of the mandibles than to the posterior margin of the head ; ovate and smooth ; 



Fig. 1. Thorax and head of Prolaelius glossinae, sp. n., $. 



ocelh in an equilateral triangle, the posterior pair a little farther from each other than 

 from the hind margin of the head. Antennae thirteen-jointed, as long as the thorax 

 and propodeon together. Scape about twice the pedicel, the latter slightly exceeding 

 the first funicular joint ; joints of the funicle subequal, no definite club ; the last 

 joint and the fourth and fifth of the funicle longer, equalling the pedicel. 



Thorax very finely and shallowly reticulate, with sparse piliferous punctures ; 

 pronotum much broader than long, moderately narrowed anteriorly, almost as long 

 as the mesonotum and scutellum combined. Mesonotum without parapsidal furrows ; 

 (C288) c2 



