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and ou the mouth-edge ; cheeks aud chiu uarrow ; moutli-opeuiug 

 long. Autenuae short, inserted over the centre of the eyes, approxi- 

 mate at the base; first joint thickened, provided with a tuft of very 

 lono- aud dense hairs below ; second short and globular ; third joint 

 much smaller and a little longer than the first, with the basal half 

 ovate and the apical half styliform. Proboscis short and thick, not 

 longer than the head, with broad terminal labella ; palpi thin and 

 rather long. Thorax villose, Avith long but not rigid praesutural, 

 supra-alar aud postalar macrochaetae ; scutellum with bristles at the 

 hind border ; metapleurae aud hypopleurae bare and shining. Squamae 

 short, but well developed and fringed. Abdomen villose, but without 

 bristles at the hind border of the segments. Male genitalia of 

 great size and complicated, but not prominent. Legs stout, with 

 spinose femora and tibiae; pulvilli well developed, long. Wings 

 long, with no distinct alula ; second longitudinal vein much looped 

 at the end and retreating, reaching the costa nearly in contact 

 with the first vein, the marginal cell being therefore very broadened 

 at end but almost closed ; praefurca very short ; upper branch of 

 cubital fork very retreating at base, aud there angulate and provided 

 with a recurrent stump ; distal cross-vein placed in the last third 

 of the discoidal cell, which is long, and with the vein dividing it from 

 the third posterior cell very long and S-shaped. First posterior cell 

 ■closed at border, anal cell open but narrowed at eud ; axillary lobe 

 proportionally short ; ambient vein complete. There are 2 sub- 

 marginal aud 4 posterior cells present. 



Peringueyimyia capensis. Bigot (1886). 



A rather hairy species, reminding one of Nomcdonia afra, aud at 

 once distinguished by the black punctate wings. 



Originally described from the Cape, there are 1 male from Nama- 

 qualaud. Springbok, November, 1890 (R. M. Lighfoot), a male 

 from Garies (Cape), November 28th, 1885 (L. Péringuey), labelled 

 by Bigot (type) ; and another female from Bushmanland, Jackal's 

 Water, October, 1911 (R. M. Lightfoot). 



Length of body 9-125 mm. ; of wing expanse 20-26 mm. Head 

 entirely black ; occiput rather shining, grey-dusted near the eye- 

 borders, with short pale yellowish hairs ; ocellar tubercle black and 

 black-haired ; frontal triangle of male bare, densely grey-dusted. The 

 linear f rons between the eyes is not broader than the front ocellus . Frons 

 of female at the vertex not more than \, and at the base of antennae i 

 of the head, shining black, black-haired near the ocelli, white-haired on 



