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and tip of E + 3 ; apex of wing slightly iufumed. Venation (Plate X, 

 fig. 7), Sc long, ending opposite the fork of the sector; Rs augulated 

 and spurred at its origin ; basal deflection of R + 5 longer 

 than r-m. 



First abdominal tergite blackish, tergites two to six with the basal 

 half blackish, the caudal half dull yellowish ; tergites seven and eight 

 black ; hypopygium pale yellow ; sternites largely dull yellow ; the 

 extreme base and sides more blackish. 



Habitat. South Africa. 



Holotype, , Krautz Kloof, Natal, November, 1915 (Marley). 



Type in the South African Museum. 



This is the first African Rhamphidia to be described. 



GEN. ELEPHANTOMYIA, Osteu Sac-ken. 

 1859. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 220. 



ELEPHANTOMYIA AURANTIACA, sp. u. 



Rostrum black; head black with a sparse grey bloom; thorax 

 orange ; wings brownish-yellow, the anal angle slightly darkened. 



Length uncertain, the abdomen broken; wing 6' 7 mm. 



Rostrum broken, much longer than the head and thorax together, 

 black ; palpi black. Antennae with the scape black, the flagellum 

 broken. Head black with a sparse dark grey bloom. 



Mesouotum rich orange without darker markings ; metauotum black. 

 Pleura orange with a slight brownish suffusion. Halteres with the 

 stem yellow, the knob broken. Legs with the coxae and trochauters 

 dull yellow ; femora rather stout, dull yellow, more brownish toward 

 the tip; tibiae and tarsi brown. Wings with a strong brownish 

 yellow tinge ; anal angle and along vein Cu slightly darkened ; stigma 

 barely indicated, pale brown ; costa brownish yellow, remaining veins 

 dark brown. Venation (Plate X, fig. 8), Sc long extending beyond 

 mid-length of Rs ; basal deflection of _R 4 + - a little longer than r-m, 

 basal deflection of Cit^ before the middle of cell 1st M 3 . 



Abdomen broken. 



Habitat. South Africa. 



Holotype, sex? Ceres, Cape Colony, April, 1913 (Lightfoot). 



Type in the South African Museum. 



Although the type is injured there can be little question about the 

 generic reference of this fly. It differs from E. wahlbergi Bergroth 

 (Caft'raria) in its black rostrum, orange thorax without a brown 

 dorso-median stripe, indistinct stigma, etc. 



