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yellow. Abdomen black, shining, hypopygium reddish, venter 

 brownish, legs dark yellow, anterior tibiae and all except the basal 

 joint of the anterior tarsi brownish. Wings hyaline slightly tinged 

 with brown, veins black, a black ocel late spot above and a > shaped 

 marking below, near the tip of the third longitudinal vein as shown 

 in Fig. '■'>. 



Two specimens, near Lake Abaya, May 9, 1895. 



OSCINIDJE. 



Elachiptera femorata n. sp. 



Length 8 mm. Head brownish, lower portion of the face and 

 front more or less yellowish, orbits in certain lights are silvery, the 

 ocellar triangle shining, the lower portion greatly attenuate and 

 almost reaching the base of the antenna?, under side of the antennae 

 red, upper side and setae dark brown. Thorax brown, with three 

 black stripes and covered with a grayish pubescence, which also 

 forms a short prominent line in the center of the anterior portion 

 of the black dorsal stripe, pleurae brownish, scutellum blackish. 

 Abdomen black, with a narrow yellowish-white posterior margin to 

 all the segments, venter brownish. Femora and tibiae reddish, tarsi 

 yellow, posterior femora somewhat thickened. Wings hyaline, veins 

 dark-brown. 



Three specimens, Ginea, November 14th, and Sheikh Mahomed, 

 October 11, 1894. 



Chlorops sp. 



One specimen, Sheikh Husein, October 3, 1894. 



HIPPOBOSCLDJE. 



Hippobosca camelina (Savg.) Leach. 



Hipposca camelina Savigny mss. Leach, Eprob. Ins., Wern. Mem., II, 556. 

 Tab. XXVII, figs. 11-14, JS17; Kondani, Ann. Mus. Civ. Storia Nat. Gen- 

 ova, XII, 165, 1878. 



One specimen, Berbera, July 5, 1894. 



Ornithomyia nigricans Leach. 



Ornitliomyia nigricans Leach. Eprob. Ins. Wern. Mem., II, 10. Tab. 

 XXVII, figs._7-10, 1817; Wied. Auss. Zvv., 11, 609, 3 ; v. d. Wulp, Dipt. 

 Sum. Exp. 57, 1 ; v Roder, Entom. Xachr., XIX, 236, 29. 



Two specimens, Dada, November 21, 1894. These specimens 

 agree with the description. 



