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tudiual stripe near mid-width of the wing ; abdomen darfc brown, the 

 basal steruites paler. 



Male. Length 14 mm. ; wing 16 mm. ; fore leg, femur 8'5 mm., 

 tibia 9'8 mm. ; middle leg, femur 8'8 mm., tibia 10 mm. ; hiud leg, 

 femur 11 mm., tibia 12 '8 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head dark brown, the apex of the nasus 

 distinctly notched, each lobe with a tuft of long reddish-yellow hairs ; 

 palpi dark brown. Antennae reddish-brown ; the first scapal segment 

 and the apical flagellar segment a little darker. Head reddish-brown ; 

 vertical tubercle prominent, indistinctly notched in front. Eyes 

 rather small, widely separated both above and beneath. 



Mesonotum discoloured in the types, brown, the praescutum with 

 darker stripes, the lateral stripes dark brown ; scutellum brown ; post- 

 notum clear grey pruinose. Pleura dark brown, grey pruinose, the 

 dorso-pleural membrane light brown. Halteres pale brown. Legs 

 with the coxae and trochauters brownish-yellow ; femora dull brownish- 

 yellow, the tips dark brown ; tibiae similar, narrowly tipped with 

 brownish-black; tarsi light brown, darkened towards the tips. Wings 

 with a strong yellowish-brown suffusion, the costal and subcostal cells 

 a little darker ; stigma distinct, dark brown ; a small hyaline area 

 before and beyond the stigma ; a narrow streak crosses cell 1st M z into 

 the base of cell 1T 4 . Venation : almost as in L. bonae spei (Bergr.) ; 

 liasal portion of E* more oblique; cell 1st M z wider, second anal vein 

 not slightly sinuous. 



Abdomen dark brown, the tergites very narrowly and indistinctly 

 ringed caudally with pale ; basal sternites more yellowish ; hypopygium 

 slightly brighter. Hypopygium with the ninth tergite having a deep 

 V-shaped notch ; pleural appendages with numerous blackened spines . 



Habitat. South Africa. 



Holotype, $ , Zoiider End Peak, Caledon, Cape Colony, altitude 

 3600 ft., January, 1919 (K. H. Barnard). 



Paratopotype ^. 



Type in the South African Museum. 



L. capicola is readily told from the related L. bonae spei (Bergr.) 

 by the almost uniformly coloured wings. In this regard it agrees more 

 nearly with the much smaller and differently coloured L. minusculus, 

 Alex. 



LONGURIO BELLOIDES, Sp. U. 



Nasus bifid, provided with long black hairs; head grey; wings dark 

 brown with a distinct subhyaline longitudinal stripe extending from 

 near the wing-base almost to the margin in cells M, 1st 3f 2 and B 5 , 



