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outer deflection of ,,, long, so that the inner end of cell 
Fs is about ona level with cell M,; outer deflection of I, 
short, squarely arcuated to almost angulated; basal deflection 
of Cu, rather far before the fork of M; fusion of Cu, and 
lst A rather extensive, about equal to m, vein Cu being 
strongly bent backward at the point of fusion ; cell 2nd A 
wider. 
Abdomen dark brown above, the sternites and hypopygium 
more yellowish. Male hypopygium with the pleural appen- 
dages a little longer than T, albilata. 
Hab. West Africa. 
Holotype, 8, Lolodorf, Cameroun, January 9, 1919 (J. A. 
Reis). 
Allotopotype, 2, January 10, 1919. 
Paratopotypes, 27  @, January 9-15, 1919. 
T. reisi is readily told from all other described species of 
the genus by the curious armature of the femora and the 
posterior tibia. This condition occurs in both sexes. 
This interesting fly is dedicated to the collector, Rev. J. A. 
Reis. 
Lecteria triacanthos, sp. n. 
Mesonotum yellowish, the prescutum with four fulvous 
stripes ; legs with the femora reddish brown, a narrow white 
ring beyond mid-length, surrounded on either side by a 
blackish ring ; tibize white, brown at the base and apex, a 
broad black band before mid-length; the three basal tarsal 
segments yellowish white, tipped with brown ; metatarsi 
with a group of three stout spines at the extreme base; wings 
broad, subhyaline, heavily banded and dotted with brown and 
rey. 
‘ Male.—Length about 14 mm.; wing 12°7 mm.; hind leg, 
femur 9 mm., tibia 8°6 mm. 
Rostrum and palpi black, sparsely grey pruinose. An- 
tenne with the basal segment black, the second segment 
light brown, the flagellum brown; there are only fourteen 
antennal segments, the first flagellar segment being a fusion 
of apparently three segments as in Conosia; first scapal 
segment elongate; first flagellar segment oval, greatly 
narrowed at the base; the following three segments short- 
cylindrical, the others gradually lengthened into long- 
cylindrical ; the flagellar segments are clothed with a dense 
white pubescence, longer and more conspicuous on the basal 
segments, flagellar segments with long verticils, one of each 
segment being longer than the others, giving to the flagellum 
a secund appearance, these longest verticils attaining.a length 
