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to the metatarsi and first tarsals on fore and mid pair ; the liind 

 with broad basal white bands and the last tarsal all white. 



$ . Head black, clothed with flat black and white scales, the 

 latter forming a broad median line and a patch on each side and 

 small white scales around the eyes ; chaetae black ; the white median 

 area passes well between the eyes. Proboscis and clypeus black ; 

 palpi black, the upper surface with snow-white scales for about half 



Wing of Stci/oinijia i^seiidoscutellai-is, n. sp., J . 



their length from the apex ; clypeus black, with bronzy sheen and 

 with a transverse carina ending each side in a 'Slight swelling; 

 antennae black ; basal segments black, with silvery white flat scales 

 on the inner side; second segment slightly paler at the base. 



Thorax dark brown, with bronzy-brown narrow-curved scales, a 

 narrow median white line extending from the fore border of the 

 mesothorax to the bare space in front of the scutellum ; a thin 

 white line on each side between the mesonotum and the pleura 

 composed of small flat scales, extending just past and over the base of 

 the wings; pleura rich brown, with a long thin white line with a small 

 one below it both running parallel to the white line above, composed 

 of flat scales; scutellum brown, with flat white scales; metanotum 

 deep brown. Abdomen deep black, the segments with curved white 

 lateral areas v^hich end in the mid or posterior third of each 

 segment ; posterior border-bristles dark ; venter black, with prominent 

 basal white bands ; legs black, with white basal bands ; femora pale 

 at base and below with white apical spots, base of metatarsi and first 

 tarsals of fore and mid legs with narrow basal white bands, other 

 tarsals unhanded, in hind legs basal bands white and broad, the last 

 tarsal all white ; ungues all equal and simple. 



Wings with rather short fork-cells, the first longer and narrower 

 than the second, its base shghtly nearer the base of the wing, its 

 stem about half as long as the cell; stem of the second posterior 

 nearly as long as the cell ; posterior cross-vein a little longer than 

 the mid, about twice its own length distant from it ; scales brown, 

 and rather dense. Length, 3 to 4 mm. 



Hab. Suva, Fiji (F. Jepson). 



Observations. Described from three females. This species 

 may easily be mistaken for S. scutellaris, Walker, as its general 

 thoracic ornamentation is very similar, but in scutellaris there 

 are white puncta on the pleura, in this two white lines, which 

 together with the mesothoracic one, show as three parallel well- 



