Genus Banhsinella. 
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Abdomen deep brownish-black, with basal yellow bands and 
brown and dull golden hairs. 
Legs unbanded, brown, femora pale beneath; a pale yellow 
spot at the apex of the hind tibiae; fore and 
mid ungues unequal, uniserrate, hind equal and 
simple, small. 
Wings with short fork-cells, the first longer 
and narrower than the second, its base nearer 
the apex of the wing, its stem as long as the 
cell, stem of the second fork-cell about the same 
length as the cell; posterior cross-vein slightly 
shorter than the mid, about three times its own 
length distant from it. Male genitalia with the 
clasper short, broad, swollen in the middle with 
a long curved terminal spine. 
Length .—3 to 3 • 3 mm. 
Habitat. — Kumasi and Obuasi (Dr. Graham). $ clasper. 
Time of appearance. —1. 2. 9. x. 07. 
Observations. — Caught in bush at 10 a.m. A small species with 
golden-scaled thorax and very marked male claspers. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Banksinella taeniarostris. nov. sp. 
Head golden-yellow in the middle; palpi black • proboscis 
dark brown with a narrow median pale band. Thorax deep 
brown; bright golden-yellow in front and around the sides, and 
with two thin parallel median yellow lines. Abdomen deep 
brown, unbanded, with basal lateral yellow spots. Legs 
unbanded, except for a pale band at the apex of the hind tibiae. 
Wings brown-scaled, except the base of the first long vein, 
which is yellow. 
$ . Head clothed with bright golden-yellow narrow-curved 
scales in the middle, flat black scales at the sides, spreading well 
on to the vertex, some creamy flat ones right at the sides; 
bright yellow upright forked scales in the middle, dark at the 
sides, golden chaetae between the eyes, black ones at the sides ; 
palpi black scaled, with black chaetae; proboscis bronzy-black 
with a median pale creamy band ; antennae deep brown, with a 
bright brown basal segment ; eyes golden around the edges, dark 
in the middle. 
Thorax black, clothed with narrow-curved bronzy scales, 
