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Geranomyia (Geranomyia) mashonica, sp. n. 
General coloration brown, the thoracic pleura plumbeous; 
rostrum yellowish; wings pale subhyaline, the stigma small, 
rounded-oval, pale brown, vein Sc long. 
Male.—Length (excluding rostrum) 5 mm.; wing 6°5 mm.; 
rostrum about 2°3 mm. 
Rostrum moderately elongate, light brownish yellow 
throughout. Antenne with the scapal segments pale 
brown, the flagellum darker brown, oval-cylindrical. Head 
light grey, the genz more yellowish. 
Mesonotum plumbeous brown, possibly discoloured, as 
there is an irregular median yellowish area on the pre- 
scutum. Pleura dark plumbeous. Halteres rather short, 
pale yellow, the knobs scarcely darker. Legs with the cox 
dark plumbeous ; trochanters yellowish brown ; remainder 
of the legs broken. Wings pale yellowish subhyaline ; 
stigma small, rounded-oval, pale brown; veins pale. 
Venation: Sc long, extending to nearly opposite three- 
fourths the length of Rs, Sc, not far from the tip of Sc, 
Sc, alone being a little shorter than m; r at the tip of R, ; 
basal deflection of R,,,; a little less than one-half the long 
sector ; r—m short, less than m ; cell 1s¢ M, rather long, the 
portion of M,,,. between 7m and m being about equal to or 
a little longer than that portion beyond m; basal deflection 
of Cu, at the fork of M. 
Abdomen reddish yellow, especially the broad posterior 
margius of the tergites. Hypopygium reddish, the ventral 
pleural appendages long, greatly exceeding the short 
pleurites ; dorsal appendages relatively ‘small, the tip 
suddenly narrowed and acute. 
Hab. Rhodesia. 
Holotype, 3 , Salisbury, Mashonaland (G. 4. K. Marshall). 
Collector’s No. 28. 
Type in the collection of the British Museum. 
Geranomyia mashonica requires comparison only with 
G. maculistiyma (Enderlein) of Madagascar. The latter 
is a differently coloured fly with the stigma dark brown, the 
basal deflection of R,,; very short and cell 1s¢ M, small and 
subquadrate. ; 
Ceratocheilus flavirostris, sp. n. 
Rostrum almost as long as the body, light yellow, the 
extreme base abruptly blackened ; antennz with the basal 
