Mr. C. G. Lamb on Exotic Cliloropidae. 



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Legs orange, with coxa black ; femur very dusky except 

 at tip. Knobs of halteres whitish orange. 



Abdomen orange, with dark bauds somewhat similar in 

 form to last species, but all of them broader in proportion 

 and less well demarcated. 



Size 2 mm. 



Cam. Coll., Mozambique (F. M.). 



Chloropisca, Loew. 



There are two single-specimen species — one resembling 

 obsrurella, but with a rounder head, the other like a true 

 Chlorops, but with somewhat flattened scutellum. It is not 

 advisable to describe from these single specimens. 



Chlorops, Meig. 

 C. contribula, Loew. 



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



C. lavigata. Beck. 



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



Chlorops zeylanica, sp. n. 



There is one species which will not accord with any of 

 Becker's species in the Indian fauna. It has a somewhat 

 exceptionally prominent head (see fig. 9) and belongs to the 

 section with fine white arista. 



Fk. 9 



Chlorops zeylanica, X 30. 



Head (top view) : — Frons (fig. 10) dull pale ochreous 

 yellow covered with black hairs ; the triangle very large, 

 with its boundary well defined nearly up to the vertex, but 

 there less so ; it extends to the extreme front, with slightly 



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