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elongate and blood red ; all the wings with seven or eight oblique 

 discoidal cells, arising from the ordinary radial sectors. 



45. ill. Mozambica (Westw.) Luteo-fulva, prothorace magis 

 rufescente, facie macula lunari, fasciaque transversa verticali 

 nigris, pronoto antice linea abbreviata nigra ; femoribus an- 

 ticis luteis, intus linea ten ui fere circulari notatis ; alis parum 

 areolatis, stigmate nigro. Tab. 18, fig. 6. 



Long. corp. lin. \\ ; exp. alar, antic, lin. 8. 



Habitat in Mozambica. In Mus. D. Miers. 



Luteo-fulvous. Head with a lunate mark between the antennae, 

 and an abbreviated transverse fascia on the forehead black. 

 Antennae about two and a half times the length of the head, 

 rather slender, black, basal joints pitchy, beneath luteous, mouth 

 luteous. Prothorax moderately elongated, not or scarcely trans- 

 versely wrinkled; luteous, having the fore margin and a short 

 longitudinal median line black, behind which are the two ordinary 

 tubercles, fulvous ; meso- and metathorax dark in the middle. 

 Abdomen paler luteous, with a brown line down each side, ter- 

 minated by two short fulvous brown curved hirsute filaments ; 

 legs pale luteous ; anterior femora with their spines externally 

 concolorous, marked on the inside with a dark brown horse-shoe 

 like mark ; the large spine on this side is luteous, the remainder 

 black. Anterior tibiae outwardly luteous yellow, with the inner 

 edge black ; inwardly black, with the upper edge yellow ; tarsi 

 yellowish, terminated by a single curved acute minute claw ; 

 four posterior femora with a very thin black line beneath ; wings 

 hyaline and colourless ; veins and stigma black ; the postcostal 

 vein pale luteous brown ; disc of all the wings with only four 

 oblique veins dependent on the ordinary radial sectors. 



46. Mantispa (Trichoscelia) Fenella (Westw.) Fulva ; capite, 

 antennis, tibiis posticis dilatatis, fascia pone medium alarum 

 anticarum (in medio interrupta) stigmateque posticarum 

 nigricantibus ; antennis longis, gracilibus, 46-articulatis ; alis 

 anticis ovalibus, posticis minoribus. Tab. 18, fig. 7. 



Long. corp. lin. 3g ; expans. alar, antic, lin. 8. 



Habitat in Brasilia, Para. (D. Bates). In Mus. Britann. 



This is one of the most remarkable species in the genus, agree- 

 ing with D. Notha, Er., in the broad form and unequal size of 

 the wings, the dilated hairy hind tibiae, and in the short simple 

 formed prothorax. These characters, together with the modifi- 

 cation in the position of the veins of the wings dependent on their 

 broad oval form, warrant the separation of these two species as a 



