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Mi.ss G. llicardo on the A-iliclre. 



long bristle-like iiairs below, besides the long soft liairs ; the 

 bristles on the hind pair o£ femora do not ajjpe-ar to be so 

 numerous; fore tarsi are enlarged as in male, lilngs as in 

 the male are shaded at apex and on posterior border, and the 

 small transverse vein is before the middle of the discal cell. 



Neoitamus neavensis, ? , so. n. 



Type (female) and five others, from 150-200 miles W. oP 

 Kambove, Congo Free State, 3500-4500 feet, 16. 10. 07 

 (S. H.Neave), 1907, 230. 



A small black and grey species not unlike Neoitamus 

 sodn/is, Wulp, from Aflen, according to the descrij)tiou, 

 Ir.ning no hairs or bristles on the scutellum ; but Wulp 

 makes no mention of the black stripe on the femoi'a. 



Jicngth 17 mm. 



Face covered with yellowisli toraentum. Moustache scnnty 

 and yellow. Pa/pi l)lack with yellow hairs. Anferwfe (broken 

 ott,i, the first joint hLick with dark hairs. Forehead with 

 some black liairs at sides. Thorax covered witli greyish 

 tomeiitum, leaving apparent a very distinct A'elvety black 

 median stripe divided anteriorly ; the side-stripes are repre- 

 sented by two large bhick spots and a small one ; the two 

 ])nesutural bristles are stout, black; the snpra-alar coissist 

 of one stout one and a weaker, the postalar being similar; 

 the dorso-central bristles are weaker and few in number. 

 Scutellum grey, w ith no signs of bristles or hairs. Abduvien 

 with large black velvety spots and grey segmentations, the 

 sides are also grey, the first segment has a tuft of yellowish 

 hairs at sides ; pubescence on dorsum very short and chiefly 

 dark; the ovipositor includes the sixth and seventh segments 

 and is about as long as the four preceding segments. Legs 

 slender, reddish yellow ; the fore femora blackish ou their 

 npperside : tibiae black at apices, the tarsi brownish from the 

 second joint onwards, the middle femora also have a dark 

 stripe, the hind pair are only black at their apices; only the 

 middle and hind femora have bristles and then only two at 

 the apex, with some very short pale yellow pubescence; the 

 tibipe have three or four each, one near the base with the 

 same pubescence ; the first joint is heavily armed with stout 

 black bristles, most of them underneath, and the following 

 joints also have them. Wings cleai-, grey, the small trans- 

 verse vein is situated beyond the middle of tlie discal cell 

 towards the apex of the wing. 



