N(..i-M3. DIPTEllA FROM SOrrilKIiy AFRICA— ('(H J UILJJ'JjT. 31 
as lonjr as tlic last two atxloiiiiiial seg'iiicnts; wings hyaline, a hroad 
brown ci'ossband on a line witli luuneral crossvein, followed ])y >■> or 4 
longitudinal brown streaks and al)out t» brown dots, a second brown 
crossband extends from l)eyond apex of aiixiliar}' vein to apex of last 
vein, at the eosta uiiitt'd witii a broad brown stripe that extends along 
the eosta to niidAvay ))etween apices of third and fourth veins, filling 
the costal margin to the third vein and near middle of last section of 
the latter sending a branch obliquely to the wing margin below apex 
of fourth vein; the second crossband also sends a branch from the 
small crossvein obliquely to the apex of the fifth vein, covering the 
hind crossvein; the costal margin is very narrowly hyaline betweeen 
apices of the first and third veins, except a pair of 1)rown dots between 
apices of first and second veins; extreme ])ase of wings yellowish; 
legs, including the front coxaj, yellow; length 4 nnn. Two female 
specimens. 
lluh'dat. — Cape Colony, Africa. 
Tijp<-.~Q'^t. No. 571)1," U.S.N.M. 
ZAPRIONUS, new genus, DROSOPH I LI D^«. 
Near Dro-sojjhlla, but the head longer than high, the front femora 
of the male with tubercles on the under sides, the bristly hairs of 
mesonotiun arranged in distinct rows, and the front and thorax marked 
with silvery white lines. Front noticeably longer than wide, narrow- 
ing anteriorly, two pairs of vertical, one pair of ocellar, and one of 
postvertical bristles, two pairs of reclinate and more anteriorly one 
proclinate pair of orbital bristles, vibrissa? stout, middle of face with 
a ver^^ high, broad, rounded carina, antennas three-fourths as long as 
the face, the third joint one and a half times as long as broad, arista 
bearing five long bristles on the upper side and two on the lower, 
clypeus projecting far beyond the oral margin; proboscis robust, 
labella fleshy, palpi large, eyes slightly higher than long, densely 
pubescent ; thorax bearing two pairs of dorsocentral bristles, the 
bristly hairs between the two dorsocentral rows arranged in six dis- 
tinct rows; five supra-alar bristles, the anterior one in front of the 
suture, two humeral, two posthumerai and two sternopleural bristles, 
scutellum bearing four bristles, otherwise bare; auxiliar}" vein distinct 
at its base only, small and hind crossveins present, second basal cell 
confluent with the discal, anal cell present, the vein at its apex reach- 
ing about halfway to the wing-margin, axillary angle distinct; front 
femora of male somewhat thickened, on the apical two-thirds of the 
under side bearing a row of four short, black, forwardl}^ directed 
tubercles, each of which bears at the base of the posterior side a back- 
wardh' directed spinous bristle; middle and hind femora and ail tibia? 
without bristles except one at apex of inner side of each middle tibia. 
