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a beak, transparent, bearing at the apex on the median side 5 seriate 

 setae, a little longer than thick, upper appendage thin, lower broad, 

 straight, linear, not much longer than the upper, lamina with an 

 obtuse point slightly expanding at tip. 



Length: 6mm. Cape Town. (R. M. Lightfoot.) 



3. SUB-FAMILY PELOPIINAE, Kieff. 



GEN. PELOPIA, Meig. 



PELOPIA MONILIS, L., var. 



<j? . Rufescent and opaque, antennae, halteres and legs white, a 

 black ring at the distal end of the femora, two at the distal end of 

 the tibiae, one at the distal end of the metatarsus, distal end of the 

 tarsal joints also black, fore tarsus broken. Eyes emarginate, 

 very much narrowed above where they are separated by twice 

 their terminal length ; this narrowed part is a little longer than 

 wide. Antennae 12-jointed, 3rd joint one-half longer than thick, 

 llth twice as long as thick, the verticil 2| times as long as the 

 joint itself, 12 three times as long as 11, gradually narrowing to 

 a point. Mesonotum with a trace of 3 rufous confluent bands. 

 Wings hairy, white with a transverse black spot on the two 

 transversals, 3 black spots situated at the end of the radius of 

 the 2nd longitudinal and of the cubitus, numerous infuscate, 

 indistinctly denned spots situated in a little more than the distal 

 3rd of the wing, some of these are between the postical and the 

 lower border, these infuscate spots are small and elongated, 

 cubitus not shorter than the costal. 



Length : 3'5 mm. Cape Town. (L. Peringuey.) 



4. SUB-FAMILY CULICOIDINAE, Kieff. 



GEN. SERROMY1A, Megerle. 



SERROMYIA NOCTICOLOR, n. sp. 



$ . Brownish black, legs dark rufous, tarsi and halteres black. 

 Antennae 14-jointed, the joints cylindrical, 3-11 sessile, gradually 

 longer, the first ones hardly as long as thick, 11 twice as long 

 as thick, the last 3 very long and sub-equal, each one double 

 the length of 11, but, taken together, shorter than 2-10 united, 

 14 without style. Wings hyaline, cubitus reaching nearly the 



