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Pleura dull brownish -yellow. Halteres short, yellow. Legs stout, the 

 coxae and trochanters dull yellow, femora and tibiae dull yellow, 

 narrowly tipped with dark brown ; tarsi brown, darkest on the 

 terminal segments. Wings with a strong yellow tinge ; stigma indis- 

 tinct ; veins yellow and brownish-yellow, brightest at the base of the 

 wing and in the costal area. Venation (Plate III, fig. 13) : Sc long, 

 ending at about two-thirds the length of the sector ; $c 2 removed to 

 some distance from the tip of Sc-^ ; Its very long, almost straight ; r 

 inserted at about mid-length of the short _K 2 + 3 ; cell le M 2 open by 

 the atrophy of the outer deflection of M. A ; in a paratype the m cross- 

 vein is likewise atrophied, leaving the end of M.^ suspended in the 

 membrane ; basal deflection of Ci^ before the fork of M. 



Abdominal tergites brown or yellowish-brown, the posterior margins 

 of the segments broadly ringed with dull yellow ; sternites yellow, the 

 segments narrowly and indistinctly ringed with paler. 



Habitat. South Africa. 



Holotype, ? ,Kuysna, Cape Colony, October, 1916 (L. Peringney). 



Paratopotypes, two 9 ? 



Type in the South African Museum. 



This species is most closely allied to G. natalensie, Alex., but is 

 readily told by the diagnostic characters given above. 



GrONOMYIA (GoNOMYELLA) PULCHRISSIMA, sp. H. 



Black ; pleura yellow with two black stripes ; abdominal tergites 

 banded with brown and yellow ; wings subhyaline, cell R% deep, tip of 

 vein 3/3 hanging free in the membrane. 



Male. Length 3'4 mm. ; wing, 2'3 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi black. Antennae black ; second scapal segment 

 enlarged ovate ; flagellar segments oval-cylindrical, the verticils short. 

 Head black. 



Pronotum dark brownish-black, the lateral margin narrowly bright 

 yellow. Mesonotal praescutum shiny black, conspicuously margined 

 with bright yellow ; scutum black, the lobes with a yellow spot on the 

 lateral posterior margin ; scutellum and postuotum black. Pleura clear 

 yellow, with a broad black dorsal pleural stripe extending from the 

 posterior margin of the pronotum caudad beneath the wing root to 

 the postnotum ; conspicuous black marks on the mesosternum between 

 the fore and middle coxae. Halteres dark brown, the base of the stem 

 yellow. Legs with the coxae dull yellow, the outer face purplish 

 brown, especially basally ; trochanters blackish ; femora light brown 

 the bases more yellow, the apices darkest ; tibiae brown, the tips 

 darker ; tarsi dark brown. Wings subhyaline, the veins brown. 



