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GEN. STYEINGOMYIA, Loew. 

 1845. Dipterol. Beitr., vol. 1, p. 6. 



STYRINGOMYIA VITTATA, Edwards. 

 1914. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., June 25, pp. 217, 218. 

 Two males, Durban, Natal, 1914 (W. Haygarth). 

 The ventral aspect of the hypopygium was not described nor figured 

 by Edwards (Plate XIII, figs. 46, 47). The pleurite has a swollen 

 ventral lobe that is armed on the cephalic face with a sharp chitinized 

 tooth. The ninth tergite (Plate XIII, fig. 46) is produced into a rather 

 slender lobe that is squarely truncated at the apex, on each angle with 

 a small papilla bearing a stout spine. 



GEN. ATAEBA, Osten Sackeu. 



1869. Mou. Dipt. N. Am., pt. 4, p. 127. 



ATARBA CAPENSIS, sp. u. 



Antennal flagellum uniformly dark brown ; thorax dull yellow with- 

 out darker markings ; wings without a stigmal spot. 



Male. Length about 4'4 mm. ; wing 5'1 mm. 



Female. Length 4'7 mm. ; wing 5'5-5 - 6 mm. 



Eostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae of the female rather 

 elongated for this sex, the scape light brown, the flagellum uni- 

 form dark brown ; segments of the female flagellum oval, densely 

 white pubescent, the segments gradually decreasing in size to the tip, 

 the last segment not elongated. Head brownish-yellow. 



Thorax uniform dull yellow without stripes, the pleura a little 

 lighter coloured. Halteres short, pale, the knob a little darker. Legs 

 with the coxae and trochauters dull light yellow ; femora rather stout, 

 dull yellow, passing into brown at the tip ; tibiae and the first tarsal 

 segment yellowish -brown, the tips darker ; remainder of the tarsi dark 

 brown. Wings with a strong yellowish tinge on the basal and costal 

 portions, the distal and anal areas more greyish ; no stigma ; veins 

 yellow in the yellowish area, brown in the greyish areas. Venation 

 (Plate X, fig. 10), Sc short, ending slightly beyond the origin of Es ; 

 Sc a about three times the length of Sc ; Us gently arcuated, a little 

 more than half the length of R. 2 + x; basal deflection of Cu l at or 

 slightly beyond the fork of M. 



Abdomen uniform brown, the ovipositor more yellowish ; sternal 

 valves of the ovipositor elongate, acute at the tips ; tergal valves a 



