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Molophilus pulcherrimus n. sp. (Fig. 45.) 
Head dark-brownish ; proboscis and palpi black; antennae brown 
with black hair. Flagellar joints nearly cylindrical, about twice as long as 
broad, verticils about twice as long as joints. orax brownish-ochreous ; 
praescutum with four dark-brown stripes and a few yellow hairs; pleurae 
with broad black stipe from neck to base of abdomen ; sternopleura below 
this line dusted with light grey, as also coxae. Abdomen ochreous-brown, 
darker at sides. Anal valves of ovipositor moderately stout, strongly 
urved, as long as last segment, which is hairy and has a pair of little 
conical projections. Legs yellowish; front femora except at base with 
very dense blackish pubescence, rather longer than the yellow pubescence 
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pubescence at tips. Wings with the membrane greyish-tinged, except for 
nine rounded spots round apical margin, between tips of veins. Hair on 
veins black, except on basal three-fifths of costa, Sc, Ri, Rs (except base), 
nd a space just before tip of An, where it is yellow. The 
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aggregations of black hair occur at base of Rs, along cord, and at tips of 
П veins. Some hairs on oo all round the apical border 
of wing. Tips of Ri, Re, and К, turn upwards; those of Mı, Me, Cus, 
and Cu, downwards. Ax dus and sinuous, ending slightly beyond level 
o 14. Cui, joining M just beyond fork, s bode atic esie ne 
Halteres yellowish, stem darker. Length of bod 
Norta Istanp: Wilton’s Bush, Wellington, Dee. (G. “т. Hides. 
No. 1155); type female in British Museum. 
prime multicinctus n. sp. 
$. d dark grey, antennae and palpi brown. Antennae а little 
shorter than thorax; flagellar joints rather shortly oval, with long fine 
pubescence (about twice as long as joint) on under side, and two or three 
very long hairs (about four times as long as joint) on xe side. T. 
rather dark greyish-brown or buff; pleurae greyer; margin and inter- 
spaces of praescutum dark brown ; ео and lateral sclerites darker. 
bdomen dark brown, with long pale pubescence. Hypopygium yellowish ; 
of length of femur; at femoro-tibial joint; before and Ка middle of 
tibia; and at base of first tarsal joint. The second of these rings is 
narrower than the others. Wings clothed mostly with dark hair, without 
distinct markings, but the hair is yoga over the cord, and lighter before 
and beyond it. Numerous hairs on mbrane in cell R,. Cu,, very 
oblique, hairy, reaching M just beradi ds longer than stem of cell M,. 
Ax long, sinuous, reaching hind-margin opposite base of M,. peut 
yellowish, knob somewhat darker. Length of body, 4 mm. ; wing, 4-5 
Two males, without exact data (C. M. Wakefield, 1880); one ipee 
in Oxford Museum, one in British Museum. 
purae infantulus n. sp. 
ead brownish. Palpi black. Scape of antennae brown, flagellum 
black, joints nearly лы all about equal; verticils nearly three 
