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Miltogramma punctatum, Mg., very common near the burrows of 

 Oolletes. 



ANTHOMYiDiB : Lispe tentaculata, Deg. 



HippoBosciD^ : Hippobosca equina, L., Eempstone Heath ; 

 'Ornithomyia avicularia, L. 



BeauliDjG : Braula cceca, Nitz. 



Brookside, 

 Winfrith, Dorset. 



SOME STEPHANID^: WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF 

 NEW SPECIES. 



By Claude Morley, F.Z.S., etc. 



(Continued from p. 36.) 



Stephatius comma, sp. nov. 



(J only. Body black, with sparse brick-red markings and the 

 antennaB very long. Head semicircularly rugose in fi'ont and trans- 

 sulcate below the scrobes ; cheeks and temples smooth, finely punc- 

 tate ; tubercles small and transverse ; vertical carina prominent ; 

 occiput trans-striate, with its basal margin truncately reflexed. An- 

 tennae very slender, nearly as long as body, with the joints well 

 discreted ; first flagellar joint thrice longer than broad, and two-thirds 

 as long as second, which is two-thirds as long as third. Thorax 

 ■confluently and superficially punctate, with the somewhat short pro- 

 ■thorax transcarinate ; semiannular part smooth at base ; mesopleurae 

 longitudinally bisulcate, metapleurae rugulose and above sulcate. 

 Scutellum smooth, with its basal sulcus crenulate. Abdomen double 

 length of head and thorax, finely alutaceous and somewhat shining, 

 with the petiole minutely transaciculate and apically subexplanate ; 

 valvulae not small; abdomen 18 mm. and petiole 8 mm. in length. 

 Hind legs slender, with the cylindrical cox£e 4 mm. and femora 5 mm. ; 

 the latter bidendate beyond their centre, with smaller teeth. Wings 

 -slightly infumate hyaline ; lower nervure of the external submedian 

 -cell deflexed in the form of a comma at the base, apically wanting ; 

 hind wing with costal nervure only, emitting a slight spurious 

 nervure from its apex below the three frenal hooks. — -Black : v^ith 

 the head except mandibular apices and the tubercles and centre of 

 occiput, the base of antennae, sides of second and of fourth segments 

 basally, whole of the third, anterior legs except coxse, and apical third 

 of hind femora including their two teeth, bright brick-red. Hind 

 tibiae basally black, reliqua^ desunt. Stigma and nervures black 

 ■costal and whole of the external submedian cells conspicuously 

 darker. 



Length, 27 mm. 



Dr. W. M. Graham captured the type, '* in forest on trunk 

 oi tree," on May 29th, 1907, at Obuasi, in Ashanti. In collection, 

 British Museum. 



