104 Miss G. Ricardo on 
Hyperalonia vittata, sp. n. 
Three males and three females from Fort Johnston, Nyasa- 
land (Rendall). 
Alhed to H. rufa, Wiedem., from 8S. Africa (Auss. zweifl. 
Ins. 3. p. 291). 
Reddish, with dark wings, the cross-veins shaded. 
Face red, pale yellow round the mouth, with yellow scaly 
hairs and some black hairs above the mouth and between the 
antennee; these last red, the third joint brown, the first two 
joints with short black pubescence ; forehead darker, with 
yellow scaly hairs and black pubescence; palpi yellow. 
Hind part of head reddish, with short black pubescence and 
yellow scaly hairs. 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 dullred, 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 aud some black pubescence ; the sides of 
the first three segments with thick yellow hairs, on the sides 
of the remaining segments a few black hairs: 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 and middle legs black; on the red- 
coloured part with yellow pile and on the black part of legs 
with black pubescence; bristles black. 
Wings 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 narrowed. 
Types (male and female), Fort Johnston, Nyasaland 
(Rendall). 
he 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 15 millim. There isa great variation in size in this 
species, one of the males and two females measuring only 
103 muillim. 
