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CHARLES T. ERUES 
Wandolleckia indomita n. sp. 
Female. Length 0‘6 mm. Uniformly pale testaceous, only the eyes, 
sparse bristles and macrochætæ black. Viewed from the side the front 
slopes rather evenly to the vertex which is sharply rounded. Near the 
anterior margin are four porrect macrochætæ in two pairs, one over the 
other. Eyes elongate oval, their longer diameter greater than that of 
the antennæ. Cheeks without bristles. Palpi slender, with a few short 
bristles toward the tips. Proboscis swollen, fleshy. Antennæ spherical, 
the arista reaching to the tip of the thorax and distinctly pubescent. 
Thorax short, about as long as the thickness of the head, destitute of 
macrochætæ except for two small ones at the hind angles, one at the 
middle of the lateral margin and one between these. On the hind 
margin there is a series of four or six finer bristly hairs. Abdomen 
oval, distinctly depressed, nearly two times as long as the head and 
thorax together. Second segment long; third and fourth shorter, sub¬ 
equal, together but little longer than the second. Fifth shorter. Sixth 
longer and rounded behind. The abdomen is soft and membranous, 
without dorsal plates of sclerites and is covered with short, sparse, 
fine and bristly hairs. Legs short and moderately stout, closely and 
finely hairy, the hind tibiæ with a distinct apical spur. Wings and hal¬ 
teres entirely absent. 
One female fromKibosho, German East Africa, March 1 903 (Katona). 
Only one other species of Wandolleckia has been described, 
W. Cooki Brues from West Africa, collected in Liberia by Dr. O. F. Cook 
on large land snails of the genus Achatina, and known only in the 
female sex. There is in the same vial with the the present female, to¬ 
gether with other wingless forms a very small winged male which 
I strongly suspect belongs with the female described here. It is about 
the same size and color as the female and resembles exactly males of 
Aphiochaeta. The front has proclinate bristles on the anterior edge 
and two rows of reclinate bristles, and there is a median impressed line and 
an ocellar tubercle. The wings have a bristly costa with well developed 
first and furcate third veins. The legs have distinct spurs on the four 
posterior tibiæ and the hind pair is strongly setulose. If this surmised 
association be correct, the validity of the genus Wandolleckia becomes 
extremely doubtful. 
Public Museum, Milwaukee, U. S. A. 
March 31, 1907. 
