478 Annals of the South African Museum. 



with a long median seta underneath which the ciliae are a little 

 shortened. 



Six examples from the S. Afric. Museum. 1 9 from Nyassaland 

 (Dr. J. E. S. Old), Entom. Res. Comm. 



STUKMIA (BLEPHARIPODA) ANGUSTIFRONS, u. sp. 



Belongs to the same group as the preceding species, and is likewise 

 remarkable owing to the ocellary setae and the ascending frontal 

 setae. It is characterised by its small size (10-12 mm.) and its less 

 wide shape ; by the narrow f rons ( | eye to vertex in the $ , |- in the 

 $ ) having lateral, parallel borders little jutting out, with orbits less 

 wide than the frontal baud. The result is that the genae being of 

 the same width as the orbits, and the peristome as broad as the pro- 

 tuberance of the frons, a larger development of the eyes follows. The 

 two apical crossed setae of the scutellum are very long and robust. 

 Face with a white sheen, orbits slightly bluish ; antennae black, mode- 

 rately narrow, third joint hardly four times the length of the second ; 

 chaeta pubescent. The occiput bears at its median part a row of small 

 black setae behind the ciliae, but these setae seldom reach the upper 

 part. Palps blackish, thick and yellowish at tip. Labella testaceous. 

 Thorax obscure, sprinkled with ashy grey, with four fine black lines, 

 the scutellum partly red ; dc. = 4; st. -=1 + 1 + 1, the intermediate 

 slender. Abdomen : First segment darkish ; the others with a white 

 baud ashy grey in front, and a black band not definitely separated 

 behind. In the $ the second segment and the anterior portion of the 

 third is reddish, and the latter bears on the ventral side a rounded, 

 deep black spot covered with decumbent closely set black hairs. Wings 

 tinted with light brown at the base and along the anterior border as 

 well as in the proximity of the longitudinal nervures. There are two 

 ciliae at the base of the third nervure. Cubitus of the fourth nervure 

 blunt, straight or a little obtuse, the apical transverse vein weakly 

 arched, the posterior S-shape, and remote from the cubitus. Squamae 

 creamy-white ; halteres testaceous. Legs black with the tibiae some- 

 times brownish-red ; the posterior with moderately equal ciliae and a 

 median seta. 



In the only $ example seen, the wings are hyaline, and the sides only 

 of the second abdominal segment are reddish. 



Natal, Durban, 4 examples (H. W. Bell-Marley), S. Afric. 

 Museum. 



