320 Dr. C. P. Alexander on 
long intervals on all the segments are shorter, erect, very 
delicate hairs. Wings with a distinct greyish-brown tinge, 
the wing-tip narrowly darkened ; cells C and Sc darker than 
the ground-colour ; stigma small, dark brown ; cord narrowly 
seamed with brown ; veins dark brown. Venation: as in 
T. (M.) albilata, but Sc, considerably shorter ; basal deflec- 
tion of Ry; usually shorter. About three long bristles on 
the posterior side of the wing-petiole. 
Abdominal tergites dark brown, paler laterally ; sternites 
obscure yellowish brown. 
Hab. West Africa. 
Holotype, &, Lonji, about 50 miles north of Kribi, near 
the Nlong River, Cameroun, April 16, 1920 (J. A. Reis). 
Allotopotype, 2, April 19, 1920. 
“In swamp, hovering about base of sapling.” 
Trentepohlia niveipes is closely related to T. albilata, Alex. 
(Cameroun), from which it differs in its smaller size and the 
coloration of the legs. 
Lecteria reisi, sp. n. 
Head brownish orange; mesonotum dull reddish orange; 
femora brownish yellow; tibiz yellowish brown, the tips 
very narrowly dark brown; metatarsi whitish; wings 
yellowish, with four small brown spots in the radial field ; 
Rs short ; abdomen yellowish orange, tergites two to seven 
with a narrow black basal ring. 
Male.—Length 15-17°5 mm. ; wing 13°5-15°4 mm. 
Rostrum short, reddish brown; palpi dark brown. 
Antennze with the basal scapal segments yellowish brown, 
the basal flagellar segments brownish yellow, soon passing 
into dark brown ; flagellar verticils very long. Head dull 
brownish orange. 
Mesonotum dull reddish orange, the postnotum more 
testaceous. Pleura yellowish testaceous. MHalteres small, 
brown, the knobs dark brown. Legs with the coxe and 
trochanters obscure yellow; femora brownish yellow, the 
extreme tips very narrowly dark brown, on the outer face 
only ; tibize yellowish brown, the tips narrowly dark brown ; 
metatarsi whitish, the extreme base indistinctly infuscated, 
the tip narrowly dark brown ; tarsal segments two and three 
brown, narrowly tipped with dark brown; remaining tarsal 
segments and the claws black ; the hairy clothing of the legs 
moderately long, semi-erect; metatarsi at base with two 
powerful black spines, with sometimes a smaller additional 
one nearer the base. Wings with a yellowish tinge, clearer 
