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This inconspicuous Dicranomyiah&s been confused with D. perinyueyi 

 of Cape Colony, both species agreeing in the slightly produced rostrum 

 and the general features of venation. D. confusa may most readily be 

 told by the small size, the pale testaceous yellow coloration and the 

 small cell 1st Me,. 



The wing is shown on Plate III, fig. 3. 



DlCRANOMYIA CAPICOLA, Sp. 11. 



Antennae black throughout ; mesouotal praescutum black, the 

 humeral regions paler ; pleura pale brown, greyish pruiuose ; wings 

 greyish subhyaline, veins brownish -black ; Sc long, cell 1st M. 2 closed. 



Male. Length 5'5 mm.; wing 7 mm. 



Female. Length about 6'2 mm.; wing 7 "4 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae black, the flagellar 

 segments short oval. Head dark brown, grey pruinose. 



Pronotum dark brown, the scutellum yellowish. Mesothorax convex. 

 Mesonotal praescutum brown, with a broad, shiny, brownish-black 

 median stripe and shorter lateral stripes that are quite confluent 

 behind, so almost the whole disc is of this colour; scutum brownish- 

 black, except the median area, which is densely buft'y polliuose ; scutel- 

 lum dark brown ; postuotum similar, very sparsely grey pruinose. 

 Pleura pale brown, greyish pruinose, especially heavy between the 

 fore and middle coxae. Mesosternum slightly infuscated. Halteres 

 brown, the knobs darker. Legs with the coxae light brownish-yellow ; 

 trochanters yellow ; remainder of the legs dark brown except the 

 extreme base of the femora, which is pale. Wings greyish subhyaline ; 

 stigma long-oval, brown, practically all proximad of r veins brownish- 

 black. Venation : Sc moderately long, Sc l ending a little beyond one- 

 third the length of Rs, Sc. 2 at its tip ; Rs more than twice the length 

 of the basal deflection of -B 4+5 , arcuated or angulated at origin ; r pale, 

 at the tip of R l cell 1st M 2 small, pentagonal ; cell 2nd M 2 longer than 

 cell J/ 3 , m being rather long and arcuated ; basal deflection of Ci^ at 

 or before the fork of M. 



Abdominal tergites uniformly dark brown, the sternites more 

 yellowish ; hypopygium reddish-brown. Ovipositor with the valves 

 rusty-chestnut. 



Habitat. South Africa. 



Holotype, , Hottentot-Hollands Mountains, altitude 3000 ft., 

 Caledon, Cape Colony, March, 1919 (K. H. Barnard). 



Allotopotype, . 



Paratype, $ , French Hoek, Cape Colony, altitude 2500-3600 ft., 

 December 4th, 1916 (K. H. Barnard). 



