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Rhamphidia obsoleta, sp. n. 



Rostrum very long and slender, nearly as long as the 

 head and thorax taken together; general coloration brown ; 

 wings nearly hyaline ; stigma pale brown, the wing-tip not 

 darkened. 



Female. — Length (excluding rostrum) about 6'3 mm. ; 

 wing 5*7 mm. ; rostrum 1*8 mm. 



Rostrum long and comparatively slender, nearly as long 

 as the combined head and thorax, dark brown ; palpi dark 

 brown. Antennas dark brown. Head dark brown. 



Mesonotum brown, the pleura scarcely paler. Halteres 

 brown. Legs slender ; coxae and trochanters dark brown ; 

 remainder of the legs dark brown, the terminal tarsal 

 segments a little paler. Wings nearly hyaline ; stigma pale 

 brown, not reaching vein R 2+3 ; veins dark brown. Venation: 

 Sc ending just beyond the end of Rs, Sc 2 at the tip of SCi ; 

 vein R 2+3 running parallel with 7? 4+5 , diverging only at the 

 end of the cell, cell R 3 trumpet-shaped only at its outer end ; 

 cell R s but little wider at the wing-margin than cell R x ; 

 cell 1st M 2 small, hexagonal^ the section of M l+2 between 

 r-m and m subequal to the basal section of M i+2 and nearly 

 twice as long as m ; m subequal to the outer deflection of 

 M s ; basal deflection of Ou x slightly beyond mid-length of 

 cell 1** M 2 . 



Abdomen dark brown; valves of the ovipositor long and 

 straight. 



Hab. Sierra Leone. 



Holotype, ? , October 1904 {Major F. Smith). B.M. 

 no. 1904. 347. 



Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 

 History). 



In general appearance, Rhamphidia obsoleta agrees most 

 closely with R. cacoxena (Southern Nigeria), from which it 

 may be told by the darker thoracic pleura, the lack of 

 darkened wing-tips, the smaller and paler stigma, and the 

 different venation, the longer Rs, the longer Sc which ends 

 beyond the fork of Rs, the narrower and straighter cell i? 3 

 which is suddenly dilated at its outer end, the lower cell 

 1st M 2 and the consequent elongation of r-m, and other 

 characters. 



Rhamphidia morosa, sp. n. 



General coloration dark brown ; rostrum about twice the 

 length of the head ; wings uniformly pale brown, the stigma 



