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ments wholly gray pollinose ; legs reddish brown, anterior 

 femora thickened, anterior tibise dark brown, anterior meta- 

 tarsi testaceous, other joints brown ; middle and posterior tarsi 

 pale brown; wings brownish hyaline, a < shaped gray hya- 

 line band with its apex at the tip of anal cell, a transverse gray 

 hyaline band crossing the first posterior cell at about its middle. 

 Length of body, 5.5 mm. ; wing, 4.3 mm. ; eyestalks, 1.5 mm. 

 One specimen ; Salisbury, South Africa. Frank L. Snow. 



Teleopsis nitidus, n. sp. 



Head shining brown, with sparse white hairs ; eyestalks 

 reddish brown, short, extremely shining black, median bristle 

 long, black, and situated upon a rather enlarged black tubercle ; 

 antenna? light reddish, arista dark ; thorax and scutellum 

 shining black ; spines of scutellum pale yellow, shining black 

 in the middle ; abdomen shining black throughout, clavate, 

 with sparse white pile ; legs light brown, anterior femora 

 slightly incrassate, other femora toward apex, tibiae near base 

 and last two joints of tarsi dark brown; wings hyaline, with 

 three transverse brown bands, first one narrowed anteriorly 

 and connected with the second near its middle ; second and 

 third connected by a band just the width of the first posterior 

 cell ; the hyaline apex of wing faintly tinged with brown. 

 Length of body, 3.5 mm. ; wing, 2.2 mm. ; eyestalk, 8 mm. 



One specimen ; Salisbury, South Africa. Frank L. Snow. 



SCIOMYZID^. 

 Sepedon scapularis, n. ep. 



Front broader than one of the eyes, excavated, rufous ; face 

 yellow, covered with pale yellow pollen ; cheeks shining yel- 

 low anteriorly, covered with pale yellow pollen posteriorly ; oc- 

 ciput shining, rufous, with an obscure narrow transverse line 

 just above the middle of eye height, another one, arcuate, just 

 above the lower corner of eye ; mouth-parts mainly rufous, 

 palpi clavate, pale yellow, rufous at tip ; first joint of anten- 

 nae rufous, second black, rufous toward base, furnished with 

 black hair, third joint lanceolate, black, arista pubescent, white 

 on distal two-thirds, brown at base ; thorax black, subshining, 

 scutellum concolorous, three black bristles on lateral margins 

 of thorax, two of them near base of wing ; humeri, thorax 

 above front coxse and a small spot below base of wing testace- 



