26 Dr. C. r. Alexander on African Crane-Jiies 



fore femora with the basal three-fifths yellow, the slightly 

 inerassated apex black ; hind femora with the basal half dull 

 yellow, passing into dark brown; tibire dark brown^ tipped 

 with black ; tarsi black. Wings subhyaline with three narrow 

 brown cross-bands, the first at the level of the origin of the 

 sector, mos<t evident at the origin of the sector and the end 

 of vein 2nd A, very pale and indistinct in the intervening 

 cells ; the second band is located along the cord, broadest 

 at costa, extending to the fork of Cu and thence as a much 

 paler cloud to the wing-margin ; the third band occupies 

 the wing-apex, the inner margin almost straight, including 

 the extreme tips of cells 27id R^ and Afg, about the outer 

 third of cells i?3, R-^, and 2nd M2; veins dark brown, veins C, 

 Sc, and the wing-base more yellowish. Venation : Sc ending 

 beyond mid-length of the long sector, SC2 far back from its 

 tip, nearer to the origin of Rs than to the tip of Sc^ ; cell 

 }si M2 long and narrow, widened distally, a little longer 

 than vein Cui beyond it ; basal deflection of Cu^ near the 

 inner end of cell \st M^. 



Abdomen shiny black. Ovipositor reddish horn-colour, 

 the bases of the sternal valves l)lack ; tergal valves of the 

 ovipositor long and slender, strongly upcurved, the tips 

 acute. 



Hab. Gold Const. 



Holotype, ? , Aburi, 1912-1913 [IF. H. Pattersoyi). B.M. 

 no. 398. 



Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 

 History). 



Teucholahis nodlpes, Speiser (Cameroun), has the meso- 

 thorax largely shiny black and the brown wing-pattern more 

 extensive. 



Teucholahis latifascia, sp. n. 



Male. — Length about 7 mm.; wing Q-7 mm. 



Female. — Length about 7 mm. ; wing 6"2 mm. 



Very similar to T. rubrithorax, differing as follows: 

 The wing-apex and the brown band at the cord are much 

 broader, the apex including about the outer third -of cell 

 2nd Ri, nearly the outer half of cell i?5, and the outer three- 

 fourths of cell 2nd Mo ; the band at the cord is approximately 

 one-halt as wide as the hyaline band between it and the dark 

 apex ; the latter is apj)roximately as wide as, or Avider than, 

 this hyaline band; the basal band is but little narrower 

 than the band at the cord. Cell 1st M^ is longer, slightly 

 exceeding in length that portion of vein Ctt^ beyond it and 

 subequal to vein M.^ beyond it. 



