508 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Five orbital setae; 1 isolated vibrissa. Thorax iron grey with thick 

 whitish indumentum on the pleurae, pruinose on the tergum. 

 Scutellum as on the tergum. Abdomen black, moderately shiny, with 

 a white baud on the anterior part of segments 2 and 3, narrow on 

 segment 4. Wings clear, nervures -pale at the base ; squamae whitish. 

 Legs black ; knees, anterior tibiae in their basal half, and intermediate 

 and posterior wholly testaceous ; posterior face of femora with whitish 

 indumentum. 



Length 5^ mm. 



Cape Colony, Algoa Bay (H. Brauns), Hofmuseums, Vienna. 



GEN. CRATICULINA Bezzi. 



CRATICULINA TAENIATA, u. sp. 



Head with dark orange sheen varying according to light, antennae 

 and chaeta black ; palpi yellow. Thorax ashy flavesceut, like the 

 scutellum, the free border of which is whitish or reddish. Abdomen 

 testaceous yellow ; 4th segment black, shiny in its hind half, obscui'e 

 grey and opaque in front ; 3rd with a white shiny black hind band ; 

 2nd with a similar but narrower baud. In addition a black medio- 

 dorsal band partly concealed by the pruinose down crosses segments 2 

 and 3, and joins again the excavation of the first, which is blackish. 

 Legs wholly black. Wings clear, nervures pale at base ; squamae 

 whitish. 



Length 5| mm. 



One single example, seemingly a 9 , Zululand, M'Fongosi 

 (W. E. Jones), S. Afric. Museum. 



GEN. MILTOGRAMMA Meig. 



MlLTOGRAMMA HELVUM, U. Sp. 



Several examples ( and $ ) in the collection of the Hofmuseums 

 of Vienna. The $ $ are labelled " ca/ra Wied. in litt," ; the 

 99" lielva B. B." It is a distinct species, easy to recognise owing to 

 the light yellow abdomen, and the segments 2 and 3 bearing 6 black 

 spots, the median of which are near each other, obscure, and often 

 almost obliterated, the lateral are wider spaced and shiny ; segment 4 

 with only 3 spots. In the 9 the abdominal spots are narrowed and 

 evanescent. Scutellum of the colour of the abdomen, often rufous on 

 the free border ; thorax more ashy with 4 obscure bands replaced by 3 

 at the back of the suture. Head y ellowish- white : frontal bands 



