40 Dr. C. P. Alexander on African Crane- /lies 



Hub. Sierra Leone. 



Holotype, ? , Kamba, November 16, 1913, 8 p.m. [Br. ,7. Y. 

 Wood). 



Paratopotype, $ . 



Presented by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, 1915. 58. 



Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 

 History). 



The following- note by Mr. Edwards accompanies the 

 specimens: "When these specimens were first shown me 

 they had legs beautifully spotted with black and yellow ; 

 these were broken off and lost by the attendant who mounted 

 them." 



It is very possible that this curious fly is not a true 

 member of the genus, but as it is here that it will run by the 

 keys it is retained in this genus until further material is 

 available. Certain features of the head and thorax suggest 

 the isolated genus Styrimjomyia. 



Genus Trentepohlia, Bigot. 



Subgenus Mongoma, Westwood. 

 Trentepohlia (Mongoma) madagascariensis, sp. n. 



General coloration dark brown : mesonotal prpescutum 

 dull yellow with three dark brown stripes ; legs brown, the 

 tips of the femora and tibite narrowly creamy white ; wings 

 pale brownish, heavily marked with dark brown; basal 

 abdominal segments annulated brown and yellow. 



Male. — Length about 12 mm.; wing ]0"5 mm. 



Kostrum and palpi brownish yellow. Antenna? rather 

 elongate, dark brown throughout, the last segment about 

 twice the length of the penultimate. Head dark brown. 



Mesonotal prsescutum dull yellow, clearest laterally, with 

 three dark brown stripes, the median stripe ending before 

 the suture; scutum yellow, the lobes dark brown ; scutellum 

 and postnotum dark brown. Pleura dark brown. Hal teres 

 pale yellow, the knobs dark brown. Legs with the coxse 

 shiny dark brown ; trochanters dull yellow; femora light 

 brown, palest basally, passing into dark brown before the 

 narrow (1*3 mm.) creamy-white tips; tibite dark brown with 

 only the extreme bases and the moderately broad tips (2 mm.) 

 pale; tarsi pale brown; fore femora with a row of small 

 erect hairs on the inner face, two of these being more 

 powerful than the others ; on the posterior femora there are 

 six or seven such spinous bristles; metatarsi with a few long 

 hairs near the base. Wings with a pale brown suffusion, 



