in (he Ih'itish Museum. 343 



a little shorter than its petiole ; basal deflection of Citi 

 nearly -at raid-lengtli of cell lat Mc,. 



Abdominal terj:;ites obscure yellowish, the intermediate 

 segments with indistinct median dashes of brown ; sternites 

 very clearly marked, yellow, the lateral and ijasal margins 

 brownish black ; a conspicuous elongate-oval median dash 

 that does not attain the margins. Ovipositor with the 

 tergal valves very long and slender, slightly upcurved. 



Hab. Sierra Leone. 



Holuti/pe, ? , Kambah, March 22, 1912 (/. /. Simpson). 



Presented by the I*]ntomological Research Committee, 

 1913. 394. 



Type in the collection of the British iNIuseum (Natural 

 History) . 



Clydonodozus neavei, sp. n. 



Head black, sparstly browuish-poUinose ; niesonotal prre- 

 scutiim with two narrow brown stripes ; wings yellowish 

 subhvaliuc with a very extensive brown pattern, the more 

 conspicuous being a very broad band along the cord com- 

 pletely filling cell 1*/ M2 ; the costal, cubital, and anal cells 

 are largely brown ; cell 1st M2 long, the inner end pointed. 



Stoc'f — Wing 10'4 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi pale. Antennte broken. Head black, 

 sparsely brown-pollinose ; vertex broad ; eyes widely sepa- 

 rated above, narrowly beneath. 



Pronotum reddish brown. Mesonotal praescutum reddish 

 brown with two long, narrow, brown stripes, narrowly 

 separated by a pale median line ; lateral stripes broader but 

 less clearly dehned ; remainder of the mesonotum dark 

 brown, sparsely grey-pruinosr, especially the j)ostnotum. 

 Pleura reddish brown, sparsely pruinose. Halteres pale 

 Lrown, the knobs darker brown. Legs with the coxae 

 reddish, the outer faces of the lore ami middle coxse dark 

 brown ; trochanters reddish ; remainder of the legs l)roken. 

 Wings yellowish subhyaline with a very extensive brown 

 pattern, arranged as follows : costal cell yellowish brown 

 basally, about mid-distance between the arculus and the 

 origin of lis passing into uniform dark brown ; the stigmal 

 area is broken in the only remaining wing ; a broad rounded 

 brown spot at the arenlus ; another aljout mid-distance to 

 the origin of A'.v ; a third at the origin of lis ; a very broad 

 seam at tlie cord, broadened out at the fork of M, so that the 

 entire cell ist M^ is dark, this same area seuiling a seam to 

 the folk of M^^2 ) a broad brown seam occupies the basal 



