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a little more yellowish. Head shiny black, eyes of maie very large, as 

 in the péringueyi group. 



Mesonotal prasscutum shiny obscure yellow with a conspicuous 

 shiny black T-shaped mark, the stem being the broad, anterior 

 médian stripe, the crossbar lying at about midlength of the prae- 

 scutum and completely traversing the sclerite; posterior end of prae- 

 scutum entirely pale; scutum black, the anterior médian portion 

 broadly, shiny, obscure yellow, scutellum shiny black, the latéral 

 wings yellowish testaceous; postnotum shiny black, including the 

 latéral sclerites. Pleura light yellow ventrally, shiny black dorsally, 

 the black including the mesepimeron and an area on the proepimeron 

 surrounding the spiracle, ventrad of the praescutal crossband; be- 

 tween thèse two black areas on the mesepisternum is a large, china- 

 white area. Haltères with the stem almost whitish, the knobs and 

 distal end of the stem brownish black. Legs with the coxae light 

 yellow; remainder of the legs yellow, the terminal tarsal segments 

 dark brown. Wings light yellow, as in E . canssima, with three, broad, 

 pale brown cross-bands that are narrowly connected with one another 

 near the middle of the wing, the yellow areas eut off at the mar- 

 gins being triangular in outline; wing-tip broadly pale; stigma dark 

 brown; veins brown in the infuscated areas, light yellow elsewhere. 



First abdominal segment black; second tergite black basally and 

 dorso-medially, the latéral margins obscure yellow; tergites three to 

 six bicolorous, the basai half yellow, the apical half distinctly infus- 

 cated; segment eight black; hypopygium yellow; intermediate ster- 

 nites obscure yellow. Hypopygium very différent in structure from 

 that of any described species; inner pleural appendage with a slender 

 neck, terminating in a long, pointed, beak-like portion that is narrowly 

 blackened at tip, the surface covered with microscopic setae; gona- 

 pophyses pale, broad-based, the proximo-caudal angle produced 

 into a long spine that is directed laterad. 



Hab. Belgian Congo (Katanga). n° 45' S. Lat., 27 40' E. Long. 



Holotype, d\ Lubumbashi, April 8, 1921 (M. Bequaert). Type in 

 the collection of the Congo Muséum, at Tervueren. 



Erioptera bequaerti is a beautiful member of a conspicuous group 

 of Ethiopian Eriopterae. It is named in honor of the collector, Dr. 



