48 Mr. C. G. Lamb on ExHic Gliloropida;. 



Head (top view) : — Entirely black and somewhat shining;, 

 even on eye-borders ; the triangle fairly close to eye on 

 vertex, extending with the usual straight sides to a sharp 

 point over antennse, excessively shining, with the usual 

 shallow but sharp depressed middle trough; the bordering 

 hair-rows very indistinct. Hind head all black. Side- 

 view : — Lower jowls dull orange and very narrow ; antenna; 

 of normal form, 3rd black and round, 2nd bright orange ; 

 arista black and finely pubescent, the longish basal joints 

 more orange. Face fairly silvery ; tongue and palpi 

 blackened. 



Thorax all entirely shining black, including the scutelhim, 

 which has two longish end-bristles ; the whole dorsum has 

 a regular clothing of very fine brown hairs ; the pleura is 

 faintly orange in some parts. 



Wings clear, normal in venation, brown veins. Halteres 

 with almost white head. 



Legs entirely clear orange, including front coxa and all 

 the tarsi. 



Abdomen shining black. 



Size 2 mm. 

 o Cam. Coll., Durban [F. M.). 



Elachtptereicus, Beck. 

 E. bistriatus, Beck. 



Specimens from Durban, Cam. Coll. (F. M.). 



Camauota, Meig. 



(Modo, Oscinis, Latr.) 



C. angustifrons, Bezzi. 



Specimens from Durban (F. M.) agreeing well with Bezzi's 

 description. 



Metapostigma, Beck. 

 M. sauteri. 



Specimens in Bur. Coll. from Coimbatore, Madras. 



Chalcidomyia, de Meijere. 



This genus was described in Tijd. v. Ent. (vol. liii. p. 156) 

 as a Drosophilid, the error being d>ie to the insect possessing 

 a remarkable bipectinate arista. Becker redescribed it in its 



