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rich golden-yellow ones in front and around the sides, over the 
roots of the wings, and two thin parallel yellow median lines and 
some scattered ones behind; scutellum black with narrow- 
curved golden-yellow scales and bright brown border-bristles ; 
metanotum black ; pleurae brown with small patch of creamy 
scales. 
Abdomen deep brown, unhanded, with basal lateral yellow 
patches, which pass upwards on to the dorsum on the last three 
segments ; border-bristles dusky ; venter with yellow basal and 
black apical bands. 
Legs deep brown, unbanded, pale at the base and below ; 
the hind tibiae with a broad yellow apical band and some 
ochreous scales in the middle and ochreous venter; ungues all 
equal and uniserrate. 
Wings brown-scaled, with the basal portion of the first 
Mg. 176. 
Wing of BanJcsinella taeniarostris. 9. n. sp. 
longitudinal yellow-scaled, and some yellow scales on the base 
of the fifth ; first fork-cell longer and narrower than the second 
fork-cell, their bases about level; stem of the former about half 
the length of the cell, stem of the latter about two-thirds the 
length of the cell ; posterior cross-vein about one and a half 
times its own length distant from the mid cross-vein. Halteres 
with testaceous stem and fuscous knob. 
Length .—3 ‘5 to 4*5 mm. 
Habitat. — Obuasi, Ashanti (Dr. Graham). 
Time of capture. —2. ix. 07 ; 7. and 11. viii. 07 ; 8. xii. 07 
1. 2. 29. x. 07 ; 6. xii. 07 ; 12. vii. 07. 
(Dr. Graham gives June, July, August, October, November, 
and December as dates of occurrence.) 
Observations. — A long series caught in bush at 10 a.m., 3 p.m., 
11 a.m., 6 p.m. They show some variation, one 9 having the 
golden scales very dense over the thorax, and another shows a 
