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frontalia completely pinched out ; male hypopygium rather large ; 

 marginal row of macrochaetae on last three segments. 



Metallea notata, Wp. 



Twenty- four specimens, both sexes, from Java, Puri, Shillong , 

 Port Blair, and other Indian localities including on board ship lo 

 miles off the Madras coast. East African specimens appear to be 

 conspecific with the Indian specimens. 



Trichometallea, gen. nov. 



Genotype, Trichometallea pollinosa, sp. n. 



Facial carina absent ; epistoma Phasia-like ; arista bare ; api- 

 cal cell widely open ; male eyes nearly contiguous, the parafronta- 

 lia reduced to a line ; male hypopygium small ; abdominal macro- 

 chaetae bristle-like, suberect, marginal on last two segments, at 

 sides of other segments, some discals on anal segment ; front tarsi 

 of female slightly widened, those of male not so ; palpi phylliform, 

 not very broad; mesoscutum, scutellum and abdomen pilose in 

 male, but not in female. 



Trichometallea pollinosa, sp. nov. 



lycngth of body, 5'25 to 6'5 mm. ; of wing, 575 to 6 mm. 

 Two males and one female : One male Songara, Gonda District, 

 United Provinces, March 3-5, 1907 ; the others Umballa, North- 

 west India, 900 ft,, May 8-13, 1905 {E. Bruneiti). 



Pale yellowish, thinly silvery pollinose. Head pale luteous ; 

 antennae, frontalia and palpi fulvous. Thorax greenish-cupre- 

 ous, pleurae thickly pale yellowish pollinose. Mesoscutum and 

 scutellum rather thickly silvery pollinose. Abdomen pale yellow- 

 ish ; median vitta and hind margins of segments blackish, either 

 broadly, narrowly or irregularly, the whole more or less thickly 

 silvery pollinose shading to pale golden. IvCgs blackish or brown- 

 ish, hind tibiae fulvous. Wings clear. Tegulae nearly white. 



Holotype (male) and allotype (female) in Ind. Mus. Paratype, 

 No. 21027 U.S. Nat. Mus., male. 



Stegosoma, H. Loew. 



Genotype, Stegosoma vinculatum, H. lyoew. — Orange Free 

 State, Africa, 



Facial carina absent ; epistoma Phasia-like, not very broad ; 

 arista bare ; apical cell widely open ; male eyes contiguous, the 

 parafrontalia nearly pinched out ; male hypopygium of moderate 

 size, the scutellum greatly swollen and over-reaching the two basal 

 segments of abdomen ; no abdominal macrochaetae, the abdomen 

 swollen, the anal segment bare on disk ; front tarsi widened ; palpi 

 phylliform. 



This genus appears to be confined to Africa. 



