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a yellow spot at the posterior angles, in one specimen the latter char- 

 acter is wanting. Venter yellowish, first and sixth segments brown- 

 ish, in one specimen the base of all the other segments is slightly 

 tinged with brown. Legs yellow with yellow pile, coxre and the 

 under side of the femora more or less tinged with brown, tips of the 

 claws black. Wings hyaline, veins yellow. 



Two specimens, Crorgora, September 13, 1894. This species is 

 readily distinguished from those already described by its lateral 

 quadrate abdominal markings. 



ANTHOMYID-S3. 



Phorbia fusiceps Zett. 



One specimen, Sheikh Mahomed, November 11, 1894. 



Anthomyia abyssinica Jnennick. 



Anlhomyia abyssinica Ja?nnick. Neues Exot. Dipt., Abhandl. d. Senckenb. 

 Ges., VI, 372. 



Two specimens, Sheikh Husein, October 3rd ; Sheikh Mahomed, 



November 10, 1894. 



Authomyiasp. 



Three specimens, Sheikh Husein, October 3, 1894. 



Anthomyia pp. 



One specimen, Sheikh Husein, October 3, 1894. 



Caricea marginipennis n. sp. 



Length 3 mm. Front, vertex and occiput bluish-gray, face and a 

 ridge surrounding the base of the antennae yellow, two slightly arc- 

 uate black lines extend from the vertical angles near the eyes, to the 

 yellow ridge above the antennas, space between the two lines less 

 bluish, on each of the vertical and frontal orbits are three minute 

 black points; antenna? yellow. Thorax bluish-gray with two rows 

 of four minute black points from each of which rises a small bristle, 

 there are also numerous smaller ones on the side of the dorsum and 

 on the pleurse, scutellum bluish-gray with two black bristles. Abdo- 

 men of the same color with two small black dots on the third, fourth 

 and fifth segments. Legs yellow. Wings with a brownish tinge, 

 and a wide whitish-hyaline posterior margin commencing near the 

 second longitudinal vein. 



Two specimens, Sheikh Mahomed, October 11, and Ginea, Nov- 

 ember 14,1894. 

 Anaphalantus politus n. sp. 



Length 3£ mm. Front and vertex black, with whitish bloom, 

 frontal orbits with silvery pubescence each with three shining black 



