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femur 7 mm., tibia 7'6-8'2 mm., tarsus about 13'6 mm. Hind leg, 

 femur 9'3-9'5 mm., tibia 1O3-1O6 mm., tarsus about 30 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head very short, dark brownish-black, 

 paler basally on the sides ; uasus short or practically lacking ; palpi 

 short. Antennae short, dark brownish-black, the flagellar segments 

 oval with indistinct verticils. Head broad, dark brownish-black, 

 sparsely dusted with brownish- grey ; vertex between the antenual 

 bases elevated, somewhat compressed, and with a deep median furrow. 



Mesouotum broad, shiny, dull brownish-yellow, the praescutum 

 with three indistinct dark brown stripes that are continent behind ; 

 scutum yellowish, the lobes brown ; scutellum and postnotum dull 

 yellow. Pleura dull brownish-yellow, sparsely yellowish polliuose. 

 Halteres very long and slender, brown, the knobs darker. Legs with 

 the coxae and trochauters dull yellow ; remainder of the legs black 

 excepting the basal portions of the femora, which are paler ; fore tarsi 

 short, the posterior tarsi excessively elongated. Wings broad, greyish, 

 indistinctly streaked longitudinally with whitish ; costal region and 

 the stigma yellowish-brown ; a brownish cloud along Cn ; obliterative 

 streak passing completely through cell 1st M., ; extreme tips of veins 

 EI and R. 2 semi-obliterated. Venation (Plate IV, fig. 19) : Sc\ per- 

 sistent, situated at the extreme tip of the vein Sc ; Ss long ; petiole 

 of cell J/i a little longer than w ; m-cu at about one-fourth the length 

 of cell 1st M 2 , punctiform or barely obliterated by the fusion of the 

 connecting veins. 



Abdomen black, the posterior margins of the segments narrowly, 

 the lateral margins of the tergites more broadly, silvery ; lateral 

 margins of the first tergite yellowish. Male hypopygium very small 

 and simple in structure, jet black. . Ninth tergite small, the posterior 

 margin with a deep U-shaped notch, the lateral lobes at the margins 

 a little paler. Pleurites fused with the steruite, the pleural suture 

 feebly indicated ; pleural appendages small. Ninth sternite rounded 

 on the median line, the posterior margin with a deep U-shaped incision 

 that extends about half the length of the sclerite. Eighth steruite 

 large, the posterior margin unarmed. 



Habitat. South Africa. 



Holotype, (J, Krantzkop, Natal, November, 1917 (K. H. Barnard). 



Paratopotypes, 2 $ <$ . 



Type in the South African Museum. 



TlPUXA CINEREILINEA, sp. U. 



Size small (wing of male 8 mm.) ; coloration brownish-yellow with 

 a broad, clear ashy dorso-median stripe extending from the frontal 



