318 Dr. C. P. Alexander on 



Hub. Madaga:<car. 



Ho/oti/pe, ? , collected by Sikora. 



Type ill tiie collection of the Vienna Museum. 



PseudoUmnophila { l*seudollnmophila) 7'ecens, sp. n. 



General coloration light brown, postnotum and thoracic 

 pleura sparsely pruinosc ; wings nearly hyaline, stigma 

 scarcely apparent ; r at tip of i?i and near mid-length 

 of /?2. " 



Male. — Length about 5 mm. ; wing 72 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi light brown. Antennae short, browti, 

 the basal scapal segment daiker ; first flagellar segment 

 brightened at extreme base. Head light brown, more 

 greyish adjoining the inner margin of eyes ; head not 

 strongly narrowed behind. 



Mesonotal prseseutum with three light brown, confluent 

 stripes ; humeral region and lateral margins broadly paler; 

 pseudosutural fovefe small, oval, pale reddish ; scutum and 

 ])Ostnotum light grey pruinose ; scutellum obscure yellow. 

 Pleura light yellowish brown, sparsely grey pruinose. 

 Halteres pale, the knobs slightly infuscated. Legs with the 

 coxae and troclianters pale whitish yellow ; femora light 

 brown ; tibiae brown, the tips rather broadly dark brown ; 

 tarsi brown. Wings nearly hyaline; stigma scarcely 

 apparent; veins pale brown. Venation: Scj ending op[)0- 

 site the fork of Rs, Sc2 longer than Sci and. near its ti[); 

 7?5 angulated and. more or less spurred at origin ; R^+s 

 approximately one-half of Rs, not conspicuously arcuated, 

 about twice the basal deflection of Cui ; r at extreme tip of 

 Ri (which is subatrophied beyond it) and just before mid- 

 length of i?2 ; petiole of cell 31^ a little shorter than i^g+sJ 

 m shorter than the defli etion of M^ ; inner end of cell 

 ]st M2 rather conspicuously arcuated ; basal deflection of 

 Cui near two-fifths the length of cell 1st Mg. 



Abdomen light brown; a brownish-black subterminal 

 ring ; hypopygium obscure yellow. Male hypopygium with 

 the pleural appendage broad-based, pale, the apex a short, 

 recurved, l)lack hook. 



Hab. Madagascar. 



Hulotype, ^ , collected by Sikora. 



Type in the collection of the Vienna Musenm. 



LimnopMla sikurai, sp. n. 



Mesonotum testaceous-yellow, thoracic pleura infuscated ; 

 halteres yellow ; Avings with a greyish-yellow tinge^ spotted 



