NEW SPECIES OF ZEPHRONIA 81 



Nuchal plate evenly punctured throughout ; crossed before its 

 anterior border by a fine straight groove; anterior edge pro- 

 duced in the middle line. 



First tergite {Fig. 2^ A) with upper 

 surface evenly sloped from its hinder to 

 its front border, not marked by a sul- 

 cus ; lamina small, with evenly thicke- 



Fig. 2 — zephronia feae. ned, rounded and evenly arched border. 



Tergites pubescent ; anterior part of each very finely granular ; 

 posterior border not pubescent but very finely and closely punc- 

 tured. 



Anal tergite very finely and closely punctured ; evenly convex 

 from above downwards and from side to side ; without trace of 

 marginal notch but with very long and fine inner ridge. 



Legs attenuated towards the apex with a single spine above 

 and behind the stout terminal claw. 



Antennae with apical segment cylindrical in both sexes. 



9 and J^ without secondary sexual characters. 



Forceps; {Fig. 2, B) first pair with short apically hooked movable 

 dactylus;. immovable dactylus exceedingly stout at the base, very 

 long, slender at the apex, its distal third abruptly curved round 

 towards the apex of the movable dactylus, a minute tooth on 

 its inner surface. Second pair with immovable dactylus stout, 

 blade-like, slightly more slender towards the truncate apex, 

 bearing on its inner surface a bifid membranous tooth. Movable 

 dactylus much longer than the immovable, composed of two 

 segments, whereof the apical is much the smaller ; outer border 

 convex, inner border correspondingly concave. 



Vulva with cap conspicuous and covering the distal margin 

 of the proximal sclerite. 



Length 23 V2 J^^i. width 12 V2 "^na. 



Locality. Teinzò, on the Moolay River. 



This species is closely allied to the preceding. It differs from 

 it in colour, in being pubescent, in having the posterior mar- 

 gins of the tergites thickly punctured, in possessing a much 

 longer ridge on the anal tergite and in being of smaller size. 



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