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Generally similar to the type maie. The abdomen is conspicuously 

 orange-yellow, the médian line of the tergites indistincly marked with 

 darker. Ovipositor with the valves very long and slender, almost 

 straight or a trifle upcurved before the acute tips. 



$, Fort Crampel, Ht. Chari-Tchad, French Congo, 1919 (Le 

 Moult). 



Allotype in the collection of the Paris Muséum. 



CLYDONODOZUS PULCHRIPES, sp. n. 



Generally similar to C. neavei Alex.; femora with a conspicuous 

 brownish black ring near midlength; wing-pattern not so heavy, the 

 disk beyond the cord largely pale, the brown spot at the fork of 

 M1+2 disconnected from the other dark markings of the wing. 



Female. — Length 14 mm.; wing 12.2 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae dark brown, the scapal 

 segments a little paler; flagellar segments with relatively long verti- 

 cils. Head dark brown, dusted with tawny ochreous. 



Pronotum dark medially, with an obscure yellow latéral spot. 

 Mesonotal praescutum brown, with three dark brownish black stri- 

 pes, the humerai région with a brownish black triangle; scutum black, 

 the médian area and the margins of the lobes paler brown; scutellum 

 light brownish yellow, the base medially dark brown; postnotum dark 

 brown. Pleura discolored in the unique type; pale in color, variegated 

 with dark brown or black. Haltères light yellow, the knobs dark brown. 

 Legs with the coxas and trochanters yellow; femora yellow, the tips 

 rather broadly (1.3 mm.) brownisch black; near midlenght of the 

 segment, on ail the legs, a brownish black ring more clearly defined 

 on the fore legs (2. 2 mm.), slightly paler in color and more diffuse 

 on the posterior legs, the yellow ring enclosed between thèse dark 

 areas measuring about 2.7 mm.; tibias yellow, the tips narrowly 

 black; basai tarsal segments brownish yellow, the two terminal 

 segments black. Wings cream-color, handsomely variegated with 

 dark and pale brown; extrême wing-base dark; prearcular région and 

 cell Se yellow; cell C, except the base, dark brown; the brown pattern 

 is distributed as follows : a dark spot at arculus, continued into cell 

 M and suffusing the basai two-thirds of this cell; a semicircular spot 



