88 
Psyche 
[April 
not hitherto been reported from Africa (c/. Schmitz, Jaarb. 
Natuurhist. Genootsch., Limburg for 1914, pp. 108-109 (1915) 
and Brues (Bull. Wisconsin Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. 12, p. 126 (1915). 
Aphiochaeta setifer, sp. nov. 
d'. Length 1.5 mm. Head and thorax piceous, lower part 
of front and anterior part of mesonotum fuscous; abdomen 
black; antennae fuscous; palpi pale yellowish: legs brownish 
yellow, the hind femora blackened at tips and their tibiae with a 
black line above; hypopygium brownish, pruinose; wings hya- 
line, with a brownish tinge apically on the disc; venation dark 
brown. Front slightly but distinctlj^ higher than wide; lower 
pair of post-antennal bristles very small, half as far apart as 
the upper pair which are nearly as large as the other frontal 
bristles and placed almost as far from one another as from the 
eye margin; bristles of lowest reclinate row with the inner one 
on a level with the upper post-antennal and one-third way 
toward the eye, the outer bristle very close to the eye and well 
above the inner one; upper row evenly spaced with the lateral 
one close to the eye, forming a slightly curved series across 
the upper third of the front; ocellar row of four bristles 
evenly spaced; ocellar triangle clearly elevated and delimited. 
Antennae small, oval; arista as long as the eye. Palpi with four 
long and two short bristles. Proboscis very small. Post-ocular 
cilia strong, slightly enlarged below, cheek with a pair of strong 
bristles. Mesonotum highly shining, with one pair of dorso- 
central bristles; scutellum with a single marginal pair. Abdomen 
dull, slightly pruinose; second segment elongated, with a couple 
of weak bristles at each side: fifth and sixth segments sparsely 
clothed with small black bristles. Hypopygium covered with 
minute bristles, but with no larger ones; apical lamella short. 
Ventral side of sixth segment bristly. Propleura along its posterior 
edge with a series of bristles, enlarged above and near the front 
coxa; mesopleura bare. Four anterior coxse conspicuously 
bristly at tips; hind femora with a series of longer hairs below. 
Middle tibiae with a line of seven or eight distinct but delicate 
