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made up of the fusion of two segments, there being twelve segments 

 beyond it, the first of these very short-cylindrical, the remainder 

 gradually elongated ; verticils short, scarcely exceeding the pale 

 pubescence, except on the last four segments, where they are greatly 

 elongated and vei'y conspicuous. Eyes large, contiguous beneath, the 

 vertex greatly narrowed ; vertex grey, lightest on the front ; this 

 region of the head is apparently discoloured, aud the whole vertex 

 may be light grey. 



Neck elongate. Mesouotum dark, the praescutum with three darker 

 stripes ; a pale area between the scutal lobes ; any pruinosity of the 

 thorax is destroyed, but small areas persisting ou the pleura show that 

 this region at least is light grey pruinose. Halteres brown, the stems 

 paler. Legs with the coxae pale, the fore coxae with the outer face 

 darkened, trochanters brown ; femora dark brown, more yellowish at 

 the base ; tibiae and tarsi dark brown. Wings with a pale greyish 

 tinge, the costal and subcostal cells more yellowish ; a large rounded 

 brown spot at the origin of Rs ; broad brown seams along the cord 

 and outer end of cell 1st J/., ; stigma elongate-oval, brown ; veins 

 dark brown. Venation : Sc ending just before the fork of Rs, Sc% at 

 the tip of Sc } ; R. 2 + y, long, running parallel to R+ + -, so that cell -B 3 is 

 scarcely widened at'the wing margin; cell 1st J/., large, basal deflection 

 of Cw-i at about two-fifths of its length. 



Abdomen broken beyond the first segment, which is greyish. 



Habitat. South Africa. 



Holotype, sex ?, Oudebosch, Caledon, Cape Colony, altitude 1500 ft., 

 January, 1919 (K. H. Barnard). 



Type in the South African Museum. 



This fly is closely related to the larger typical form, E. insularis, 

 Edwards, of the Seychelles Islands, but seemingly represents a distinct 

 race. The rostrum is shorter, the thorax not ochraceous, in a little 

 shorter than the outer deflection of M 3 , etc. Unfortunately Edwards 

 does not figure the venation or describe it in detail. The present fly 

 almost reproduces the venation of the genotype, E. westwoodi, O. S. 

 (North-Eastern North America), except that the radial sector and cell 

 1st J/o are considerably longer. The wings of this new Elephantomyia 

 superficially resemble those of Rhamphidia capensis, Alex., in the 

 nature of the brown pattern. Besides the generic characters, however, 

 the present insect is readily told by the lack of brown markings 

 proximad of the sector and by the cell R^ not being widened at the 

 wing margin. 



