Genus Melanoconion. 941 
Habitat.—Lagos (Dr. Strachan). 
Time of capture.—December. 
Observations.—Described from a ¢ taken by Dr. rier 
The ? only has been previously described. 
MELANOCONION INDECORABILIS. na. Sp. 
Head blackish-brown, with a narrow pale-scaled border round 
the eyes ; proboscis black, unbanded. Thorax dull dusky-brown ; 
abdomen dusky-black, unbanded and unspotted, venter with a 
dull ochraceous tinge. Legs deep blackish-brown, unbanded. 
Wings with brown scales, fork-cells moderately ee apices of 
veins densely scaled. 
* @. Head black, with dusky-brown narrow-curved scales and 
brown upright forked scales, a border of white narrow-curved 
scales around the eyes ; antennae and palpi deep brown ; pro- 
boscis blackish-brown, swollen at the apex. 
Thorax deep blackish-brown, covered with long narrow-curved 
bronzy-brown scales and some black bristles; scutellum paler 
brown, with thin narrow-curved black scales and six brown 
border-bristles to the mid lobe ; metanotum black ; pleurae paler 
brown. 
Abdomen black, unbanded and unspotted ; posterior border- 
bristles small and dull; venter dull, with an ochraceous hue. 
Legs brownish-black to almost black, unbanded ; coxae and bases 
and venter of the femora rather paler ; femora slightly swollen ; 
ungues small, equal and simple. 
Wings with brown scales (Plate XII.), those on the apex of the 
wing dense and broad ; first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower 
than the second posterior cell, its base considerably nearer the 

Fig. 125. 
Melanoconion indecorabilis, 9. n. sp. 
Two wings to show variation in stems of fork-cells. 
base of the wing, its stem about one-third of the length of the 
cell, stem of the latter equal to nearly two-thirds the length of 
the cell or rather more; posterior cross-vein longer than the 
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