. Fig. 2. Lonchcea vibrissij'er, n. sp., wing. Thorax. Shining black with normal bristles and stout bristly hairs extending nearly up to the prescutellar bristles. Scutellum same colour as thorax. Wings (Fig. 2) brownish in tone with brown-yellow veins. Calypters pale with pale borders and hairs. Halters black with stalks slightly paler in the middle. Legs all black except that the metatarsi and the next joint in the front and middle legs and the next two joints in the hind legs are yellow. The front femora have the inferior row of bristles longer than usual, forming a regular comb. Middle fem
. Fig. 2. Lonchcea vibrissij'er, n. sp., wing. Thorax. Shining black with normal bristles and stout bristly hairs extending nearly up to the prescutellar bristles. Scutellum same colour as thorax. Wings (Fig. 2) brownish in tone with brown-yellow veins. Calypters pale with pale borders and hairs. Halters black with stalks slightly paler in the middle. Legs all black except that the metatarsi and the next joint in the front and middle legs and the next two joints in the hind legs are yellow. The front femora have the inferior row of bristles longer than usual, forming a regular comb. Middle femora with a stout ciliation below and the tibiae with no crown of spines. Abdomen similar to the last species but somewhat more truncate at the tip. $ with a wider frons, the ovipositor short and much flattened, with a pale sheath. Size a little over 3 mm. Localities. Seychelles. Silhouette : plateau of Mare aux Cochons, over 1000 ft., IX. 1908. Mah£: Cascade Estate, about 1000 ft.; Morne Seyehellois, over 1500ft., 4. II. 1909.
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