Hagen.] 292 [March 17, 



17. Micromus timidus. 



Micromus timidus Hag., Bericht., Akad. Berlin, 1853, p. 481. 



Hag., Peter's Reise Mossamb., v, 91-92, pi. 5, fig. 2. 



Long corp. 8 mm. ; exp. al. 15 mm. 



Brown, whitish pilose ; face glossy ; vertex elevate ; palpi brown- 

 ish ; antennae reaching the middle of the wings, pale yellow, the 

 two basal joints and the ten apicals brown ; legs pale yellow ; ap- 

 ical half of abdomen wanting ; front wings hyaline, subcinereous, 

 base and hind margin mottled with gray ; veins and villosity pale 

 yellowish ; seven sectors ; series of gradate veins parallel, ex- 

 ternal with eleven, internal with seven veins ; sectors at the base 

 and throughout spotted with brown ; gradate veins and their con- 

 nections dark brown ; hind wings hyaline with nine external and 

 six internal gradate veins ; the internals and connections dark 

 brown. 



Hab. Mozambique, Peters ; the type in the Berlin Museum. 



As the venation was drawn by me with the camera, its correct- 

 ness is without any doubt. In the older description eight sectors 

 were »stated, but I had then wrongly counted the basal branch, 

 which does not belong to the sectors. 



18. Micromus insularis, n. sp. 



Micromus insularis Hag. 



Long. c. al. 8 mm. ; exp. al. 15 mm. 



I had before united this species with M. timidus, even after com- 

 paring it with the type in the Berlin Museum, but the venation 

 differs so much that I think they cannot belong together. Front 

 wings with six sectors ; series of gradate veins parallel, eight ex- 

 ternal veins, five internals. Otherwise the coloration is identical. 

 The specimen is a male ; lower appendages yellow, brown on tip, 

 long, cylindrical, turned outside, a little curved at the base ; a 

 pointed penis in the split ; the abdomen is brown, the last segment 

 yellowish. 



Hab. Madagascar, one specimen presented to me by C. A. 

 Dohrn. More specimens of both species are needed to prove their 

 position. 



