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short spinulae at base; posterior tibiae with two long bristles near 

 apex. Wings nearly hyaline, the base and costal région indistinctly 

 more yellowish; a dusky cloud along Cu and less distinct seams along 

 the cord, R2 and R3, R4+5 plus Mi +2 and M\ +2 alone; veins dark brown, 

 the costal vein more yellowish. Venation : Sc\ ending some distance 

 before r, Sc2 rather close to its tip, Sa alone being about one-half 

 longer than the distal section of Rv, Rs shorter than the deflection 

 of Ri+0; straight, r short, cell ist Ri being much narrowed distally; 

 R2 strongly perpendicular ; fusion of i?4+5 and M1+2 subequal to 

 Rs; basai deflection of Cu\ more than one-half its length before the 

 fork of M; branches of Cu strongly divergent; cell 2nd A broad. 



Abdominal tergites brown, the caudo-lateral angles of the segments 

 paler, obscure yellow; sternites pale brown, the caudal half of the 

 segments paler; ovipositor dark horn-color. 



Hab. Dahomey. 



Holotype, $, Ouidah (Whydah), 1923 (Sergt. Barthélémy). 



Type in the collection of the Paris Muséum. 



Trentepohlia brevisector bears a certain resemblance to T. hyalina 

 Alexander (Cameroun) in its nearly hyaline wings but is readily 

 distinguished by the venational détails. 



Genus LECTERIA Osten Sacken. 



The genus Lecteria was based upon a single species, L. armill- 

 aris (Fabricius) from South America. It was not until 1920 that any 

 species from Africa was definitely recorded but since that date rather 

 numerous species from the Ethiopian Région hâve been described 

 until at the présent time no fewer than 13 species are known from 

 this région. 



The species of Lecteria hâve the legs conspicuously hairy, especially 

 those of the female, where the trichiae are erect and very évident. 

 Venational tendencies in the genus are as follows : Se very long, lying 

 close to the tip of Ri at the wing-margin; Rs usually long and lying 

 very close to R, cell ist Ri thus being very narrow; veins Rs, R2+3 

 and i?3 in perfect alignment, R2 and R3 very strongly divergent 

 toward their tips, cell R2 at the wing-margin thus being unusually 

 wide; deflection of i?i+ô conspicuous, strongly arcuated; cell M\ 



