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margin of the mouth, bare, with very scanty greyish hairs on the 
sides. Antennae with the first two joints black, the first swollen 
but short, bearing short black hairs ; the third joint longer than the 
first two together, and not narrower, of a bright red colour and 
showing a very minute terminal style. Proboseis black, thin, 5 mm, 
long. Occiput with long and dense lemon-yellow hairs, Thorax 
and scutellum black, clothed with long lemon-yellow hairs, without 
black hairs. Halteres whitish. Abdomen black, with the same 
hairs as on the thorax, with only a few black hairs on hind margin 
of segments. Genitalia yellow-red, with long red spines. Legs 
yellow, with only the coxae and tarsi black; tibiae with yellow 
bristles ; femora with pale hairs, those of the hind pair without 
bristles. Wings pure hyaline, with black veins, which are reddish 
at the base, costa and first veins wholly reddish; direction of the 
veins the same as in the preceding. 
Type 9, and another specimen, from West Nyasa, 
Mzimba, June 6, 1909 (Dr. H. S. Stainnus). 
6. Hurycarenus, Loew (1860). 
A very distinct African genus, which seems to be allied 
to the South American Heterostylum, Macq. ; at least both 
genera show the same sinuosity at the hind margin of 
the eyes. Only a single species is known, which has 
however, a wide distribution in the Ethiopian region. 
E. pachyceratus, Bigot (1892), from the Cape, is very 
doubtful, and belongs perhaps to the preceding genus. 
13. Hurycarenus laticeps, Loew (1852). 
Several specimens of this easily recognised species from 
West Nyasa, Chintechi (Dr. H. S. Stannus); another male 
specimen from Northern Nigeria, Lokoja, January 10, 
1911 (J. J. Simpson); a very small female (7 mm.) is 
from Abu Jill, Kordofan (H. H. King). 
7. Lomatia, Meigen (1822). 
Of this distinct genus, which is abundantly represented 
in the Ethiopian fauna, there are in the collection only 
two specimens, belonging to two very different species. 
14. Lomatia inornata, Loew (1854—not of 1860!). 
Loew has described two different species of Lomatia 
with this same name: one in 1854 from Nubia, and 
another in 1860 from South Africa. Since the two 
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