in the British Museum. 105 
narrow base, thence tapering gradually to the narrow apex ; 
inner pleural appendage a flattened blade, the posterior 
outer angle near the base with a long, needle-like, blackened 
spine. Ninth sternite with a broadly rectangular median 
notch, the base convexly rounded. Eighth sternite with the 
posterior margin pale, provided with a long, slender, finger- 
like median lobe that is directed ventrad and caudad and is 
slightly enlarged distally, covered with a pale, silken, 
appressed pubescence. 
Hab. Nyasaland, Southern Rhodesia. 
Holotype, 3, Mt. Mlanje, Nyasaland, altitude 2500 feet, 
April 26, 1910 (S. 4. Neave). No. 1919. 174. 
Allotopotype, °, April 30, 1910. 
Paratopotypes, 2 3’s, 3 2’s, April 26, 1910; 8 9’s, 
April 28, 1910; 1 2, May 4, 1910; 1 ?, December 28, 
1912 (no. 1918. 236) ; 1g, January—February, 1914 (J. B. 
Davey) (no. 1915. 58). 
Paratypes, 8 ¢, Mt. Chirinda, Southern Rhodesia, alti- 
tude 3800 feet, June 8, 1911 (C. F. M. Swynnerton) (no. 
1912. 145). 
Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 
History). 
The nearest described relative of the present species would 
seem to be N. mossambica, Alexander, a larger fly with the 
details of coloration distinct, the scutellum and postnotum 
but sparsely hairy, and with the hypopygium differently 
constructed. 
Nephrotoma fumidapicalis ampla, subsp. n. 
Female.—Length 14°3-19 mm.; wing 13°8-16 mm. 
Close to typical fumidapicalis, Alexander (Mt. Mlanje, 
altitude 2500 feet), differing as follows:— 
Wings with a strong yellowish tinge, the apex not strongly 
darkened ; subcostal cell more yellowish ; a dusky cloud 
along the cord. Postnotum subglabrous. Abdomen orange- 
yellow, the lateral margins broadly blackened, the first 
tergite black ; tergites two to five with a blackish triangle 
at the posterior margin, this not connected with the lateral 
margins ; apical half of tergite six and all of tergite seven 
black ; tergite eight yellow ; tergite nine and the ovipositor 
horu-coloured. 
Hab. Nyasaland. 
Holotype, 2? , Mt. Mlanje, altitude 6500 feet, May 1, 1910 
(S. 4. Neave). B.M. no. 1919. 174. 
