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Dasycompsa cincta Enderlein 
Dasycompsa cincta Enderlein, 1922, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, X, 2, p. 344 (without specific deserip- 
tion); 1925, loc. cit., XI, 2, p. 317 (co; Sanaga, Cameroon). 
BELGIAN Conao. — Stanleyville, three females and two males, as prey 
of Bembix bequaerti Arnold var. dira Arnold, April 1915 (H. Lang and 
i, Py Chapm). 
Female. — Ground color black, mostly covered with black hairs. First and second abdominal 
segments mostly yellowish white and with white hairs, the second tergite black before the pale 
hind margin; broad hind margins of the following segments also dirty white, with white fringes. 
Face, subcallus, and lower part of the frons white, with gray pollinosity; the face with long, white 
hairs. Sides of the thorax with white pile. Base of antennae, palpi, and basal half to two-thirds 
of tibiae white, with white pile. Third antennal segment gradually tapering from the broad base 
to the sharp apex. Frons one and one-third times as long as wide, almost parallel-sided, without 
basal callus, but with three faint, somewhat shiny, irregular, longitudinal spots about the middle. 
Ocelli very distinct. Eyes densely covered with short hairs, their lower inner corner (at the sub- 
callus) more pronounced than usual. Wings yellowish subhyaline; base of wing (as far as the base 
of the basal cells) brownish; some of the cross-veins margined with pale yellowish brown; fork 
of third longitudinal vein without appendix; anal cell either very narrowly open or closed very 
near the margin of the wing. Length, 12 to 14.5 mm.; length of wing, 11 to 12 mm. 
Male (undescribed). — Length, 11.5 to 13 mm.; width of head, 4.5 mm.; length of wing, 10 
to 11 mm. 
Colored almost exactly like the female. Eyes contiguous for a rather long distance. Ocelli 
prominent. Palpi exceptionally slender. Hair of the eyes longer and denser than in the female. 
This species is closely allied to D. apiformis (Neave); but that species is 
much more extensively pale fulvous yellow on the abdomen (being rather ful- 
vous with black fasciae), the second tergite is mostly fulvous with a median 
black spot, and the disk of the wing has a suffused dark area (much less dis- 
tinct in the specimen seen than in Neave’s figure). 
D. cincta, which is known only from the Cameroon and the Belgian Congo, 
is probably the West African rain forest representative of the East African 
D. apiformis. 
Pronopes Loew 
Pronopes Loew, 1858, Ofvers. Vet. Ak. Forhandl., Stockholm, XIV, (1857), p. 339; 1860, ‘Dip- 
teren-Fauna Siidafrikas,’ I, p. 26. Monotypic for Pronopes nigricans Loew, 1858. 
This genus appears to be strictly South African. Two species have been 
described: P. nigricans Loew and P. flavipes Hine (1923, Ohio Jl. Sci., X XIII, 
p. 204; ¢<; Willowmore, Cape Province). 
Hinea C. F. Adams 
Hinea C. F. Adams, 1905, Kansas Univ. Sci. Bull., III, p. 150. Monotypie for Hinea flavipes 
Adams, 1905 = Silvius pertusus Loew, 1858. Enderlein, 1925, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, XI, 
2, p. 321.1 Mich. Bequaert, 1928, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afric., XVI, 1, p. 80. 
Hineia C. F. Adams, 1905, Kansas Univ. Sci. Bull., III, p. 150. Misprint for Hinea. 
A revision of this strictly Ethiopian genus has recently been published by 
Mich. Bequaert, who includes in it the following species: Hinea flavipes Adams, 
1 From the references given by Enderlein it might be thought that Adams originally used the spelling 
Hineia only and that the form Hinea was a later emendation by Kertész. Such is, however, not the 
case, for Adams used both spellings on the same page of his paper, the generic description itself being 
headed ‘‘ Hinea.”’ 
