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veins, the halteres pale, the second of the thick veins forked and bare, 

 the sciitellum with only two bristles, and the palpi long and broad, 

 with a single long terminal bristle. Ruficornis in the second division, 

 has the costa reaching to the middle of the. wing, the halteres pale, 

 and the scutellum with four bristles. Full descriptions of these and 

 of umhrimarqo will be found in Becker's " Phoridae." 



Phora papillata, sp. n. 



Head entirely black ; frons not furrowed, very broad and short, apparently 

 more than three times as broad as long; antennae large and pressed in on the frons, 

 hiding its lower part; palpi rather large, dilated, bristly, black ; thoi*ax with the 

 dorsum black, and with black hairs but no bristle!*, except at the sides, and a pair of 

 praescutellar ones ; the humeri have a small pale patch ; pleurae quite bare, except 

 a few prothoracic bristles ; scutellum with four bristles; abdomen brownish-black, 

 shining, almost bare, a single row of very small bristles on the hind-margins of 

 segments, and a hw at the sides ; a largish patch on the fore-margins of the 

 segment strongly papillose, and showing bright orange in certain lights ; sides of 

 the belly with strong longitudinal furrows ; wings with the costal ciliation very 

 short, the first thick vein much bent, the costal cell very broad at the centre and 

 darker than the rest of the wing ; the second thick vein forked and bare ; the first 

 thin vein much bent, bayonet-shaped at its base, then straight and ending at the 

 tip of the wing ; the first, second, and third thin veins with a clear line on each 

 side of them and a brown shadow-line beyond. Halteres dark brown ; fore-legs, 

 coxse and femora black, except at their tips ; tibiae and tarsi and the tip of the 

 femora and coxae orange ; mid legs brown, except the base and tip of the femom 

 and coxae, and all the tarsi which are orange ; hind legs, coxae, and femora dark, 

 tibiae and tarsi orange ; fore tibiae with a single tiny bristle at the first third of its 

 outer side ; mid tibiae with two small outer bristles, hind tibiae bare. Size, 3 mm. 



P. nigricornis, Egg., Bishop Auckland, 1 $ , 8.3.02 ; nudipalpis, Beck., Brance- 

 peth, 1 ? , 15.0.02 ; Bishop Auckland, 1 S , 14.5.02 ; ruficornis, Mg., Bishop 

 Auckland, 1 ? , 25.5.1900 ; umhrimargo, Beck., Bedburn, 1 <? , 12.6.05. 



St. Peter's Vicarage, 



Bishop Auckland : 

 March 2Zrd, 1906. 



A NEW ETHIOPIAN SPECIES OF SELOPELTIS. 

 BY PBOF. O. M. REUTER. 



In the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, xxviii, 1892, p. 159, I 

 described the first African species of this peculiar genus, R. bergrothi, 

 from the Gaboon, the previously known forms being from the Indian 



