104 Miss G. Ricardo on 



Hyperalonia viitata, sp. n. 



Three males aud three females from Fort Johnston, Nyasa- 

 land [Ren (hi I/). 



Allied to H. rufa, Wiedem., from S. Africa (Auss. zweifl. 

 Ins. i. p. 291). 



Reddish, with dark \A'ing>!, the cross-veins shaded. 



Face redj pale yellow round the mouth, with yellow scaly 

 hairs and some black hairs above the mouth and between the 

 antennae; these last red, the third joint brown, the first two 

 joints with short black pubescence ; forehead darker, with 

 yellow scaly hairs and black puljcscence ; palpi yellow. 

 Hind part of head reddish, with short black pubescence and 

 yellow scaly liairs. Thorax dull black, the posterior corners 

 red, with orange-yellow pubescence on the sides and anterior 

 margin and scattered fulvous pile on the dorsum with some 

 black hairs, bristles at the sides black ; breast-sides with 

 yellow pubescence. Scutellum dull led, black at the extreme 

 base; the pubescence black, and black bristles. Abdomen 

 dull red^ with a central black stripe, widest on the first 

 segment and ending on the sixth, rather densely covered 

 with fulvous pile and some black pubescence ; the sides of 

 the first three segments with thick yellow bail's, on the sides 

 of the remaining segments a few black liairs : underside of 

 abdomen red, with light yellow pubescence. Legs red, the 

 last three joints of the posterior tarsi more or less black, all 

 the tarsi of the anterior aud middle legs black ; on the red- 

 coloured part with yellow pile and on the black part of legs 

 with black pubescence; bristles black. 



AVings brown, lighter at the apex and on the posterior 

 border, all cross-veins shaded; the first posterior cell narrowed 

 at its opening, the second a little narrower than the third, 

 and the fourth widest of all; the anal cell narro>ved. 



Types (male and female), Fort Johnston, Nyasaland 

 [Rendall). 



The female has the dorsal black stripe on abdomen a little 

 broader, the posterior border of the thorax is red and the 

 wings a little lighter. 



Length 1 5 millim. There is a great variation in size in this 

 species, one of the males aud two females measuring only 

 10^ millim. 



