in the British Museum. 343 



a little shorter than its petiole ; basal deflection of Cu l 

 nearly at mid-length of cell 1st M 2 . 



Abdominal tergites obscure yellowish, the intermediate 

 segments with indistinct median dashes of brown ; sternites 

 very clearly marked, yellow, the lateral and basal margins 

 brownish black; a conspicuous elongate-oval median dash 

 that does not attain the margins. Ovipositor with the 

 tergal valves very long and slender, slightly upcurved. 



Hab. Sierra Leone. 



Holutype, ? , Kambdh, March 22, 1912 (J. J. Simpson). 



Presented by the Entomological Research Committee, 

 1913. 394. 



Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 

 History). 



Clydonodozus neavei, sp. n. 



Head black, sparsely brownish-pollinose ; mesonotal prre- 

 scutum with two narrow brown stripes ; wings yellowish 

 subhyaline with a very extensive brown pattern, the more 

 conspicuous being a very broad band along the cord com- 

 pletely filling cell 1st M 2 ; the costal, cubital, and anal cells 

 are largely brown ; cell Is/ M 2 long, the inner end pointed. 



Sex ? — Wing 10 - 4 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi pale. An tennse broken. Head black, 

 sparsely brown-polliuose ; vertex broad ; eyes widely sepa- 

 rated above, narrowly beneath. 



Pronotum reddish brown. Mesonotal pnescutum reddish 

 brown with two long, narrow, brown stripes, narrowly 

 separated by a pale median line ; lateral stripes broader but 

 less clearly defined ; remainder of the niesonotum dark 

 brown, sparsely grey-pruinose, especially the postnotum. 

 Pleura reddish brown, sparsely pruiuose. Halteres pale 

 brown, the knobs darker brown. Legs with the coxa2 

 reddish, the outer faces of the fore and middle coxse dark 

 brown ; trochanters reddish ; remainder of the legs broken. 

 Wings yellowish subhyaline with a very extensive brown 

 pattern, arranged as follows : costal cell yellowish brown 

 basally, about mid-distance between the arculus and the 

 origin of Rs passing into uniform dark brown; the stigmal 

 area is broken in the only remaining wing ; a broad rounded 

 brown spot at the arculus ; another about mid-distance to 

 the origin of Rs ; a third at the origin of Rs ; a very broad 

 seam at the cord, broadened out at the fork of M, so that the 

 entire cell 1st M 3 is dark, this same area sending a seam to 

 the fork of M 1+2 ; a broad brown seam occupies the basal 



