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vein; the second begins a little before the end of the second 

 vein, and, passing over the hind cross-vein, ends (where it is 

 dilated) at the hind margin near the middle of the third pos- 

 terior cell ; the third band has the shape of an apical arch, which 

 extends from the end of the second vein to the end of the fifth; 

 this last band is broader than the others, but is interrupted 

 toward the middle by an oblique hyaline streak, which ends at 

 the apex of the fourth vein. 



73. Spheniscomyia sexmaculata Macq. 1843. 



A widely spread species, the distribution of which is from 

 South Africa to the Philippines and Formosa. 



74. Rhabdochaeta bakeri sp. nov. 



Nearly allied to the type species of the genus {R. pulchella 

 Meij. from Java), but distinguished by the scutellar bristles and 

 wing pattern. 



Male and female. — Length of body, 2.5 mm. Head and its 

 appendages as in R. pulchella; third antennal joint very decidedly 

 pointed; palpi feathered; frontoorbital bristle dilated. Thorax 

 as in R. pulchella; scutellum with 6 dorsal bristles ; there is a pair 

 of smaller white bristles before the basal pair, which are longer 

 and darker; the apical pair is crossed, and under this is to be 

 seen another pair of smaller bristles, which are also crossed. 

 Ovipositor short and truncate, and of a shining reddish color. 

 Middle and hind femora with a single dark ring (the apical), 

 which is mostly indistinct. Pattern of wings very much like that 

 of R. pulchella, but around the blackish spot placed just above 

 the hind cross-vein there are 3 reddish brown spots disposed in 

 a triangle; the largest spot is in the discal cell, just below the 

 small cross-vein. The coloring of the spots is very much like 

 that of the similar spots in Schistopterum moebii Beck. 



75. Oxyna parca Bezzi. 1912. 



The present specimens are identical with those from India. 



76. Oxyna sororcula Wied. 1830. 

 Agrees with my Canarian specimens. 



77. Trypanea amoena Frauenf. var. 



Some of our specimens agree with those from India, but differ 

 in the want of the superior part of the brown streak issuing 

 from the stigma and in the lack of the brown spot on the fifth 

 vein. 



78. Diopsis subnotata Westw. 1848. 



A characteristic species, very distinct by its great size. 



