184 Annals of tJie South African Museum. 



GEN. RHIPIDIA, Meigen. 

 EHIPIDIA AFRA, Bergroth. 



Two male specimens from Krautzkop, Natal, November, 1917 

 (K. H. Barnard). A large male from the Hottentot-Hollands Mts., 

 Caledon, Cape Colony, 1917 (K. H. Barnard). As stated by Edwards, 

 this species runs uncomfortably close to the genus Dicranomyia, and 

 should perhaps be referred to that genus. 



RHIPIDIA MIOSEMA (Speiser). 

 1909. Limonia miosema, Speiser, SjiJstedts Kilimandjaro-Meru Exped., 



10, Dipt., pt. 4, pp. 50, 51. 



A female of this species from the type-locality, Kilimandjaro, 1916 

 (W. West). Cedara, Natal, April 18th, 1920 (S. H. Skaife). 



The wing has never been figured, and is shown on Plate III, fig. 2, 



GEN. GERANOMYIA, Haliday. 

 1833. Entomol. Mag., vol. 1, p. 154. 



SUB-GEN. MONOPHANA, Edwards. 

 1912. Trans. Linn. Soc. Loud., vol. 15, pt. 2, p. 200. 



GERANOMYIA (MONOPHANA) STJBIMMACULATA, sp. n. 



Rostrum short ; mesonotum shiny yellow with three indistinct 

 reddish stripes ; wings pale brown, the stigma indistinct ; r at the tip 

 of Ep 



Female. Length, excluding the rostrum, 7'1 mm. ; wing 8 mm. ; 

 rostrum 1*4 mm. 



Rostrum short, black ; palpi uuiarticulate, black. Antennae very 

 short, dark, the flagellar segments subgiobular. Head grey. 



Thorax shiny yellowish, the praescutum with three rather indistinct 

 reddish stripes, the broad lateral stripes continued backward on to the 

 scutal lobes. Pleura brownish testaceous. Halteres brown. Legs 

 with the coxae brownish -yellow, the terminal segments of the latter 

 darker. Wings with an indistinct brown tinge, the costal region a 

 little more yellowish ; stigma indistinct ; veins dark brown. Venation 

 (Plate III, fig. 4) : Sc. 2 far removed from the tip of Sc v ; r at the tip 

 of JBj. 



Abdomen dark brownish-black, the ovipositor and its valves brighter, 

 the sternal valves deeply split. 



Habitat. South Africa. 



Holotype, ? , Krautz Kloof, Natal, June, 1916 (Marley). 



