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Originally described from Nyassaland in my work on the Bomby- 

 liidae of the Britisli Museum, there is a male specimen from M'Fongosi, 

 Zululand, March, 1917 (W. E. Jones). 



J. Group Bljsiius. 



ExopRosoPA (Exoprosopa) luteicosta, Bezzi, sp. nov. 



A species resembling- in general faciès E. heros or dux, but more 

 allied to major-batrachoides, and having the venation of the present 

 group, in which it may be provisionally placed. 



A male from Ovamboland, 1890-91 (E. W. Eriksson), and 2 

 specimens from Grahamstown (Cape) in my collection ; there are 

 some other doubtful specimens from Touws River, Cape, and Potchef- 

 stroom, Transvaal (T. Ayres). 



I described the present species from East Africa, and the South 

 African specimens agree well with the types, but they are of larger 

 size and have more extended and darker wing-pattern. E. costalis, 

 Macquart, is perhaps allied, but it is said to have a venation like that 

 of E. Bobertsi. 



Length of body 16-19 mm. : of wing 17-20 mm. Head black; the 

 fore half of f rons, the face and the mouth borders are of a pale reddish 

 colour ; occiput grey-dusted, with pale yellowish central fringe and 

 whitish ocular stripe ; postvertical furrow narrow ; vertex depressed 

 between the eyes ; f rons I of the head at vertex and } at the antennae, 

 the upper half clothed with blackish erect hairs, the frontal half Avith 

 dense yellowish scales and pale yellowish hairs ; face bluntly convex, 

 not much produced, the sides with shining white scales and whitish 

 hairs at the mouth borders. Antennae with the first joint short, dark 

 brown, yellowish-haired ; third joint black, elongate, with a short 

 terminal style ; palpi and proboscis blackish, the latter a little pro- 

 jecting. Thorax black, with yellowish dust on the back, which shows 

 3 longitudinal stripes ; collar entirely yellowish like the hairs on the 

 sides ; bristles black ; pleurae entirely whitish-haired, even on the 

 metapleura. Scutellum red, with a narrow black base, yellowish- 

 dusted, and with numerous black bristles at the hind border. Squamae 

 brownish yellow with a whitish fringe ; haltères brownish, with paler 

 knob. Abdomen broad and obtuse at end, entirely black ; the hairs 

 on the sides of the first segment whitish, those on the others alternately 

 blackish and yellowish ; the upper side is clothed Avith black scales 

 and has cross-bands of white scales complete on the 2nd sides of the 

 3rd and 4th and also entire on the 6th and 7th ; venter black, with 

 white scales and hairs. Legs black, with yellowish scales on femora 

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