512 Ann ah of the Hunt It African Museum. 



FAM. ANTHOMYIDAE. 



SUB-FAM. MUSCINAE. 

 GEN. PYKELLIA Rob. Desv. 



PYRELLIA NUDISSIMA Loew, AURANTIACA, n. var. 



Differs from the typical form by the violet with purpurine sheen of 

 the thorax and scutellum ; the abdomen wholly testaceous orange, the 

 antennae, palpi and legs brownish red, but the latter are black at the 

 knees and on the tarsi, and the hyaline wings having an anterior black 

 border which fills first the mediastinal cell, becomes interrupted, and 

 reappears as far as the 1st posterior cell inclusively after making a 

 notch beyond the apex of the 2nd longitudinal nervure. 



One $ , Natal, Durban ( W. Haygarth), S. Afric. Museum. 



PYRELLIA NUDISSIMA Loew, LIMBATA, n. var. 



Near the preceding variety comes another $ from the Belgium 

 Congo communicated by Dr. J. Bequaert. 



Similar to the typical form, but the wings show a broad anterior 

 border extending on the space included between the edge of the 

 wings and the 3rd longitudinal nervure, and ending in the 1st posterior 

 cell 



GEN. MUSCA, Lin. 



MUSCA NATALENSIS, 11. Sp. 



According to the Authors the ciliation of the 3rd nervure to beyond 

 the small transverse nervure on the inferior face of the wings belongs 

 exclusively to Musca lusoria Wied. It is not so, however, and there 

 are other species which share this characteristic, namely M. ciethiops 

 Stein (although it is not mentioned by the author) ; M. pattoni Aust. ; 

 and also the larviparous species mentioned by Eoubaud under the 

 name of M. corviiia, and which, after comparison with hatched 

 examples, seems to me to be a varietal form of M. pattoni, etc. I 

 know also of two African species in which this ciliation occurs ; they 

 both belong to the group of the genus Musca in which the thorax has 

 two wide black bands only. The first is described here as M. nata- 

 lensis. 



Size and shape of M. lusoria; head similar; thorax and scutellum 

 shiny black ; a white median band on the tergum, which after the 



