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and tip of B.^ + .^ ; apex of wing slightly infumed. Venation (Plate X^ 
fig. 7), Sc long, ending opposite the fork of the sector; Bs angulated 
and spurred at its origin ; basal deflection of B^ + - longer' 
than r-m. 
First aVjdominal tergite blackish, tergites two to six with the basal 
half blackish, the caudal half dull yellowish ; tergites seven and eight 
black ; hypopygium pale yellow ; sternites largely dull yellow ; the 
extreme base and sides more blackish. 
Habitat. — South Africa. 
Holotype, (^ , Krantz Kloof, Natal, November, 191-5 (Marley). 
Type in the South African Museum. 
This is the first African Bhaniphiilia to be descri])ed. 
Gen. ELEPHANTOMYIA, Osteu Sackeu. 
1859. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. -220. 
Elephantomyia AURANTIACA, Sp. u. 
Rostrum black ; head ))lack with a sparse grey l)loom ; thorax 
orange ; wings brownish-yellow, the anal angle slightly darkened. 
Length uncertain, the abdomen broken; wing 6-7 mm. 
Rostrum broken, much longer than the head and thorax together, 
black ; palpi black. Antennae with the scape black, the fiagellum 
broken. Head black with a sparse dark grey bloom. 
Mesonotum rich orange without darker markings ; metanotum black. 
Pleura orange with a slight brownish suffusion. Halteres with the 
stem yellow, the knob l)roken. Legs with the coxae and trochanters 
dull yellow ; femora rather stout, dull yellow, more brownish toward 
the tip ; tibiae and tarsi brown. Wings with a strong brownish 
yellow tinge ; anal angle and along vein Cii slightly darkened ; stigma 
barely indicated, pale brown ; costa brownish yellow, remaining veins 
dark brown. Venation (Plate X, fig. 8), Sc long extending beyond 
mid-length of Bs ; basal deflection of B^ + - a little longer than r-m, 
basal deflection of Cu-^ before the middle of cell Ist Jig- 
Abdomen broken. 
Habitat. — South Africa. 
Holotype, sex? Ceres, Cape Colony, April, 1913 (Lightfoot). 
Type in the South African Museum. 
Although the type is injured there can be little question about the 
generic reference of this fly. It differs from E. wahlbergi Bergroth 
(Caffraria) in its black rostrum, orange thorax without a brown 
dorso-median stripe, indistinct stigma, etc. 
