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Dicranomyia connectans, sp. n. 
Colour dark brown; tarsi white; wings brown, the tips 
darker ; cord far out near the wing-tip ; anal angle lacking ; 
Cu, and 1st A fused for a short distance back from the 
wing-margin. 
Male.—Length 6°6-8°8 mm. ; wing 7:3-8°2 mm. 
Female.—Length 6°7 mm.; wing 6°8 mm. 
Rostrum yellowish brown, darkest above. Palpi dark 
brown. Antenne dark brown, the first segment paler brown ; 
flagellar segments elongate-oval, with long black verticils. 
Head dark brown. 
Pronotum dark brown, yellowish laterally. Mesonotal 
prescutum reddish brown without stripes, the humeral region 
a little brighter. Pleura pale, sparsely yellowish pollinose. 
Halteres very elongate, dark brown. Legs with the fore 
coxe brown, the other coxe yellowish; trochanters dull 
yellow ;- remainder of the legs dark brown excepting the 
tarsi, which are largely wliite ; on the fore legs only the 
extreme bases of the metatarsi are a little infuscated ; the 
other legs have about the basal third of the metatarsus 
brown, broadest on the middle legs; two terminal tarsal 
segments bright yellow. Wings cuneiform, with no anal 
angle, the cord lying far out near the wing-tip ; membrane 
strongly brownish, darkest at the apex; stigma oval, dark 
‘brown ; veins dark brownish black. Venation asin D. cunei- 
jormis, de Meij., with the following exceptions :—ceell 1s¢ 17, 
shorter, nearly square, the basal deflection of Cu, just before 
the middle of its length ; 1s¢ A runs close to Cu and is fused 
with Cu, at the wing-margin, this short fusion about equal 
to Sce. 
Abdomen elongate, dark brown, including the hypopygium. 
Hab, West Africa. 
Holotype, 8 , Lolodorf, Cameroun, January 9, 1919 (J. A. 
Reis). 
Allotopotype, 2 , January 9, 1919. 
Paratopotypes, 2 §, January 9-15, 1919. 
D. connectans is closely related to D. cunetformis, de Meij. 
(Java), but is readily separated from this and all other known 
species of the genus by the apical fusion of Cu, and 1st A. 
Dicranoptycha natalia, sp. n. 
General coloration dark brown, the wings with a strong 
dark brown suffusion. 
Male.—Length 8-8°5 mm. ; wing 8°3-8°6 mm. 
