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the eyes, more yellowish on the front and the occipital 
region. 
_ Pronotum yellow. Mesonotum dark brown; the pre- 
scutum broadly margined with dull yellow. Pleura duil 
yellow. Halteres rather short, dark brown, the extreme base 
more yellowish. Legs with the coxee yellow, the fore cox 
a little darker ; trochanters dull yellow ; femora dark brown, 
the extreme bases a little paler, the tips white, broadest on 
the fore femora; tibiae white, with a relatively narrow 
(5 mm.) black subbasal band, the white apex occupying the 
apical half or more of the segment ; tarsi white, a patch of 
hairs at the base of the middle and hind metatarsi and the 
tips of the tarsi more yellowish. The white femoral apex 
is a trifle broader than the tibial base on the fore legs ; the 
tibial base is much broader than the femoral tip on the middle 
and hind Jegs. ‘The legs are armed in both sexes; the fore 
femora have three long erect bristles, with one or more 
additional smaller sete in a group near the base ; the middle 
and hind femora each bears a row of some eight to ten small 
subequidistant bristles near the base; femora with several 
long setz at apex, these a little more sleider on the fore 
femora. Middle and hind metatarsi on the inner face at the 
base with a longitudinal row of conspicuous orange hairs, 
these more distinct on the posterior metatarsi, Wings 
greyish subhyaline, the costal cell more yellow, the subcostal 
cell more brownish; stigma narrow, oval, brown; extreme 
tip of the wing indistinctly darker ; veins brownish black ; 
the cord and vein Cu very narrowly and indistinctly seamed 
with brownish. Venation: 7 long, more than twice the 
length of ,,3 between it and the fork of the latter; basal 
deflection of M,,, short, usually less than mj; outer 
deflection of 17; evenly arcuated, Jong, the inner end of cell 
M; lying far proximad of cells R; and M,; basal deflection 
ot Cu, at or close to tlee fork of AZ; fusion of Cu, and 1st A 
slight. A group of two or three long curved sets on the 
caudal margin of the wing-petiole. 
Abdominal tergites dark brown, the basal segment paler 
laterally ; sternites yellowish, 
Hab. West Africa. 
Holotype, 3, Lolodorf, Cameroun, January 16,1919 (J. A. 
Reis). 
Allotopotype, 9, January 15,1919. 
Paratopotypes, 200 3 9, January 9-16, 1919. 
T. frag: lama, Westw., the type of the subgenus Mongoma, 
is very insufficiently described by Westwood. The insect is 
