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Kradibia cowani, n. s. 



Mas capite, thorace, pedibusque fulvis, antennis pal- 

 lide flavis, abdomine albido. Fceinina capite, antennis, 

 thoraceque piceis, pedibus, abdomineque fulvis, alis 

 cinereis, venisfulvescentibus. Long.corp. — mas, lj mm. ; 

 fcemina, 2 mm. Expans. alar, 3|- mm. 



Hab. Cernes insula, Dom. W. D. Cowan cum ficubus 

 communicavit. 



In Mus. Britannico et nostro. 



A single parasitic species was found in these Mada- 

 gascar figs, whereof I noticed only two examples. They 

 may be easily confounded with the males of Kradibia, 

 being very similar in general appearance ; but they are 

 at once recognisable by their fully-developed inter- 

 mediate legs and other structural characters, being also 

 prominently palpigerous, with conglomerate eyes. They 

 constitute a new species of Sycoscapter, the description 

 of which is hereto appended. 



Sycoscapter gibbus, n. s. 

 Characteres e maribus descripti. 



Fulvescens, apterus, Kradibii mares simulans ; capite 

 elongato, prominulo, basi rotundo ; oculis conglomeratis ; 

 mandibulis crassis, longis, subrectis, apice obtusis 

 sursum curvatis ; palpis maxillaribus longulis, infra 

 prominulis, articulis cluobus apicalibus parvulis, extimo 

 seta longa instructo. Antennae structural solitse in hoc 

 genere, pallide flavae. Alse rudhnentarise nulla3. Pedes 

 antici robusti, femoribus magnis, subovatis ; tibiis 

 brevibus, apice multispinosis ; tarsis 5-articulatis, arti- 

 culis 4 basalibus flavescentibus, brevissimis, latis, oblique 

 compressis, sinuatis, extimo rufo-piceo, magno, elongato, 

 basi tenui, apice lato, rotundato, unguibus, pulvillisque 

 majusculis. Pedes intermedii similes sed minores, csetera 

 ut in anticis. Pedes postici majores, femoribus magnis, 

 ovatis ; tibiis longioribus, curvatis, basi constrictis, apice 

 late truncatis, margine antico latereque externo spinis 

 plurimis validis instructis ; tarsis ut in anterioribus sed 

 majoribus, unguibus pulvillisque elongatis. Long. corp. 

 lg- mm. 



Hab. Cernes insula, cum Kradibia cowani in ficubus 

 ipsis commixti. 



In Mus. Britannico et nostro. 



