498 Aimals of fhe South African Museum. 



2 and 3 with 2 median marginal setae. Claws with the anterior claws 

 of moderately elongated. 



TRIXOCLEA METALLICA, n. sp. 



Has a broad purple sheen round the thorax, forming bands on the 

 tergum, covering almost the whole of the scutellum, the anterior half 

 of the abdomen, the sides and the whole venter : a colouring which is 

 doubtless variable. The genae are ashy white, the orbits and the 

 occiput are slightly violaceous, green or purple. Antennae and palps 

 testaceous ; autenual chaeta fuscous with the first two joints distinct 

 but short. Proboscis thin, deflexed, mostly wholly black. Wings 

 clear, yellowish at the base and along the anterior border, where the 

 nervures, which elsewhere are black, are yellow ; no costal spine ; 

 5-6 ciliae at the base of the 3rd uervure. Squamae whitish, halteres 

 testaceous, the club fuscous. Legs robust, black. 



One $ . Zululand, MTongosi (W. E. Jones), S. Afric. Museum. 



PAKARONDANIA, n. gen. 



Antennae testaceous, short, projecting little beyond the epistome, 

 joints 2 and 3 equal, 3rd blackish. The chaeta is also black, thickened 

 at the base, the 2 first joints distinct, but short. Palpi cylindrical, 

 testaceous, dark at apex. Frons a little wider than the eye, with the 

 sides parallel, and having a brownish median band twice wider than 

 the orbits, which are grey and bear 2 orbital setae. The ashy white 

 face is somewhat constricted by the eyes, and shorter than the 

 frons ; genae and peristome narrower than the orbits. The lower 

 border of the eyes is on the level with the buccal, the great vibrissae is 

 inserted a little above it and surmounted by two small setae. No 

 frontal setae except one projects beyond the insertion of antennae. 

 Wings similar to the genus Styloneuria B. B. ; cubitus of 4th nervure 

 obtuse ; 1st hind cell with a short petiole reaching almost to the apex 

 of the wing ; right posterior transverse equi-distant from the cubitus 

 and the small transverse ; costal spine long and projecting ; 1-2 ciliae 

 at the base. Squamae whitish ; halteres wholly yellow. The face 

 narrower than the frons, as well as the narrowed epistome, the absence 

 of setae on the scutellum, and the neuration of the wings, are charac- 

 teristic of the genus, and separate it sufficiently from Rondania R. D. 



PARARONDANIA MULTIPUNCTATA, u. sp. 



9 . A small, pretty opaque grey species marked with round, well- 

 defined patches, namely : 4 on the thorax, 2 in front of the suture, 



