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bristles, with occasionally a black one intermixed, and at 

 sides of oral opening there are one or two stout black 

 bristles in some of the specimens; in the type they are all 

 yellow. Palpi blackish with yellow haii's. Beard white. 

 A few yellow hairs are continued from the moustache to 

 the base of antennae, which last are dark with black hairs 

 on the first two joints. Forehead with black bristles at sides. 

 Tho7'ax blackish covered with grey tomentum, the median 

 stripe divided and the side-stripes appearing as four black 

 spots ; pubescence on dorsum black, with strong black 

 bristles posteriorly. Scutellum with two black bristles. 

 Abdomen with the usual dark spots and greyish segmen- 

 tations ; pubescence black and yellowish, bristles at sides of 

 segments yellow : underside uniformly light in colour. 

 Genitalia black with grey pubescence, reddish on the under- 

 side. Legs black, the tibiae reddish, only black at the 

 extreme apex ; in some specimens the inner sides are black- 

 ish and the hind pair are almost always largely black, the 

 bristles on fore femora below are red or yellow in the type, 

 often black in the other specimens ; pubescence of legs 

 greyish and yellow, the yellow bristles on fore tibiae are 

 long, usually three or four in number, and are continued on 

 the tarsi often on each side, on the tibise they are on the 

 outer edge, bristles elsewhere chiefly black, with the 

 exception of those on the hind femora. Wings with grey 

 shading on the apex, very distinct. 



Female identical. Ovipositor black, shining, with the 

 usual terminal spines. In some specimens the yellow bristles 

 on fore femora are reduced to one. 



Philodicus nigrescens, ^ ? , sp. n. 



Type (male) and others, type (female) and others, all from 

 Lualaba River, Congo, 2500-4000 feet (Neave Coll.). 



A blackish fair-sized species. Legs blackish, the femora 

 and tibiae of the anterior legs reddish, fore tibiae and tarsi 

 with some long yellow bristles. Fore femora on male with 

 soft white hairs and one black bristle near the base ; female 

 with two black ones and three yellow ones. 



Length, S 20-24, ? 20-23 mm. 



Male. — Face brown with yellowish-grey tomentum, chiefly 

 at sides. Moustache composed of long yellow bristles and 

 two long black ones on each side. Palpi with white hairs. 

 Antenna broken off, the first two joints black with black 

 bristly hairs, a few yellow hairs on face below. Forehead 

 with black bristles at sides. Thorax brownish with grey 



