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characterized as being pitcliy black, the thorax more dihite ; 

 letTs brown, with the knees, the tibial tips, and the tarsi 

 white. At the base of tlie fore femora are two spinnles. 

 Specimens from Madap^ascar that Oslen-Sacken later r<»- 

 ferred, with considerable doubt, to fraqUUma had the entire 

 distal third of the tibiae white. In the present species the 

 entire distal half of all the legs in both sexes is white. 



Trentepohlia (Moncfoma) reisi, sp. n. 



General coloration brown, more yellowish beneath ; femora 

 and tibifc with the tips wliite ; tarsi white ; femora with a 

 series of about a dozen spines near the base ; posterior tibias 

 with a series of from eight to ten stout setae ; wings nearly 

 hyaline. 



^Jnle (tyiie). — Length. 8'() mm. ; wing 8 mm.; fore leg, 

 femur 12*5 mm., tibia IG mm.; hind leg, femur 14'3 mm., 

 tibia 15 mm., tarsus 11 mm. 



Male (series). — Length 8'G-9*5 mm.; wing 7'G-O mm. 



Female (series). — Length 10 mm. ; wing 8'6. 



Rostrum light yellow; palpi dark brownish black. An- 

 temife moderately long, dark brownish black, the flagellar 

 segments long-oval. Head dark brown, paler on the occiput 

 and underneath on the genjc, which bear a few long curved 

 hairs. 



Pronotum dark brown above, yellowish laterally. Meso- 

 notal prescutum yellowish brown, darker brown anteriorly; 

 remainder of mesonotum pale brown. Pleura pale yellow, 

 a little more brownish dorsally. Ilalteres short, dark brown, 

 the base yellowisj). Legs with the coxjb and trochanters 

 yellow ; femora dark brown, paler at the base, the tips 

 ])assing into white ; til)i£B brown, the bases indistinctly 

 Avliitish, the tips i^assing into white, these about twice as 

 wide as the white femoral tips ; tarsi white or pale yellowish 

 white. All the femora with a series of from ten to seventeen 

 short stout black spines near the base, extending in a single 

 row along tho ventral face ; these spines are slightly variable 

 in number, but are ap])arently more numerous on the fore 

 femora ; femoral tips with a few slender blackish hairs; hind 

 tibiae near the tip with from eight to ten long, curved, erect, 

 black seta?, five or six of which are grou|)ed on the white 

 tips, the proximal throe or four less crowded and located on 

 the brown areas. Wings nearly hyalino, the costal and 

 subcostal cells a little more j-cllowish ; stigma pale brownish 

 yellow ; veins pale brown. Venation : similar to T. aWi- 

 lala, dilVcring as follows : — cell 1*^ iUo shorter and broader ; 



