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conform with the large antennal cavities. Post-ocular cilia very minute. 
Mesonotum large and broad, considerably wider than the head; at its humeral 
- angles the propleurae extend far inward, so as to be visible from above as large 
triangular sclerites, each with the prothoracic spiracle near its center. Lateral 
margins of mesonotum with a fringe of stiff hairs. Mesopleura below the root 
of the wing with three macrochaetae. Abdomen of the usual form, with none 
of the segments elongated except the sixth. Legs long and quite. slender, 
the anterior tibize entirely bare, each with a microscopic apical spur; middle 
ones with a fringe of very fine setulae; hind ones with a row of rather strong 

Coryptilomyia armigera sp. nov. Female. 
A. Wing; B. Side view of head; C. Front view of head. 
setulae along the dorsal edge, and a second one along the outer side; all four 
posterior tibiae with distinct spurs. Wings of ample size, hyaline with fus- 
cous veins; the costal vein reaching to the middle, its cilia very short; tip of 
first vein twice as far from the humeral cross-vein as from the tip of the third; 
fourth vein running nearly parallel to the wing margin, forming a very narrow 
cell and ending barely before the wing tip; fifth sinuous, curving forward on 
its apical half; sixth nearly straight; seventh curved, close to the wing margin. 
Halteres dark brown. 
Two specimens from Durban, Natal, South Africa, 1909. (B. 
Marley.) ‘Type in the British Museum of Natural History. 
Phora cochlearipalpus Speiser. 
Berliner entom. Zeitschr., 52, p. 146. (1908.) Amani, German 
East Africa. 
