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with a brown band on the subapical cross-vein ; hind eross-vein 
with a broad spot; end of the anal cell with an ill-defined brown 
spot. re 
Type Q.asingle specimen from Obuasi, Ashanti, 23. vi. 1907 
Dri, MM Graham). 
52. Graptomyza aurea, sp. n. 
3 2. Length of body 8 to 9 mm. 
Allied to the preceding species, but larger and distinguished by 
the black facial stripes. the black abdomen clothed at the end with 
golden hairs, and by the shorter basal joint of the middle tarsi, 
which besides is dilated in the male. 
Head as in G. wanthopoda, but a little more produced ; frons of 
equal width in both sexes, with the two fovee merged into a single 

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Fig. 11.—Graptomyza aurea, sp.n. ¢G. X09. 
broad depression, and the two lateral yellow spots usually fused 
together along the eyes; the three facial stripes are well marked, 
black, but not "broad ; hairs on eyes longer; antenne as in the pre- 
ceding species, but the hairs on the eee a little longer. Thorax 
with the colour and hairs as in G. a ‘anthopoda, but the golden hairs 
more abundant and longer, chiefiy towards the hind border; 
bristles similar. Scutellum ver y different, with a smaller and 
deeper median depression, which is dark and dusted in the middle ; 
the golden hairs are longer; the four bristles as in the preceding 
species, but the apical ones are distant and not decussate. Halteres 
and metanotum as in G. xanthopoda; squamule dark, with golden 
fringe. Abdomen of the same shape and punctate as in the pre- 
ceding species, but towards the end clothed with longer and denser 
golden hair; first segment black, with only the middle depression 
and the tips of the lateral prominences yellow ; second black, with 
a median vellow hind border, abbre viated laterally and united with 
