BV FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 
1209 
at tlie base, generally compressed from the sides, often cylindrical, 
with short, thick, coarse ovipositor, provided with two lamellse at 
the apex. Legs moderately long ; hind femora more flattened 
than the fore pair ; tibi?e spurred, and with latei-al spines ; hind 
tibise and tarsi almost equally long, sometimes the tarsi somewhat 
shorter. Wings large, extending a little beyond the end of the 
abdomen, with a I’ounded off or obtusely cunei formly narrowed 
base, microscopically pubescent. Costal vein exten dingalmostimper- 
ceptibly beyond the tip of the second longitudinal vein, terminating 
before apex of the wing ; auxiliary vein large, running parallel 
with the first longitudinal vein, ending, bent downwards, in the 
first longitudinal vein ; marginal cross-vein situated before the 
middle of the first longitudinal vein ; apex of the inner marginal 
cell lying over the .short petiole of the second sub- marginal cell; 
base of the second posterior cell situated before the base of the 
second sub-marginal cell, sometimes even before the origin of the 
third longitudinal vein; fifth longitudinal vein delicate, incomplete, 
frequently almost missing. 
165. TrICHOXTA VEGETA, n.Sp. (PI. XXXII., fig. 14). 
9 . — Length of antenme 0‘050 inch ... 1.27 millimetres. 
Expanse of wings 0'140x0'050 ... 3’55xl'27 
Size of body 0‘140 x 0‘030 ... 3’55 x 0'76 
Antennae about the length of the head and thorax taken together, 
bright brown, the first flagellar joint more than twice as long as 
broad. Hypostoma and palpi pinkish-yellow. Head greyish- 
brown, with a short golden-yellow ]>ubescence. Thorax greyish- 
brown, levigate, rather densely covered with a short golden-yellow 
j)ubescence, with two indistinct longitudinal single rows of longer 
l»lack hairs converging towards the scutellum where they almost 
meet; humeri rather deeply tij)ped with greyish-yellow; lateral 
borders and .scutellum with brown .setaceous hairs ; pleura) and 
metathorax deep brown ; scutellum biown. Haltercs whitish, with 
a very minute ])iibescence. Abdomen rather robust, greatly 
compressed from the sides, from above almost as wide as the 
