Macroscirtus brevipennis Redtenbacher, 1892

Fig. 6; Tables 3

Type material: holotype ♀, Africa, West Tropical Africa, Sierre Leone. NMW .

Description: Body dark. Back of the head and pronotum shelled, brown or black on both sides. Tegmina scarcely exceeding abdomen, narrow, rounded at the apex, brownish, sparsely and palely brown-stained. Hind wings narrow, slightly shorter than tegmina. Testaceous front legs with a single external spine drawn above; brownishrusty hind tibia. Fore femur brown, unarmed; hind femur very thickened at the base, transversely areolate on the outside, with a raised line, shiny, well arranged in longitudinal section, paler below, and armed with 4-5 spines on each side at the apical half. Ovipositor ferruginous.

Distribution (Fig. 6): Sierra Leone (type locality); Equatorial Guinea, Cabo San Juan, (Bolivar, 1906).