COLLIN— DIPTERA, BORBORID^ 103 



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Also recorded from East Indies (Wied.), Africa (Lw.), Cuba (O.-Sack.), Brazil and 

 St Vincent (Thorns, and Willist.). 



6. Limosina munda, n. sp. 



A brightly shining black species with ample brownish wings and pale yellow legs. 



$^. Head broader than long with moderately large eyes, frons and face brilliantly 

 shining, the former broader than long and with very few bristles, viz. one pair of ocellar, 

 two pairs of vertical and two pairs fronto-orbital, the front one being weak. Face nearly 

 straight in profile, the large and wide inter-antennal keel being softly rounded off' in all 

 directions, jowls about one-third the heighth of eye. Antennee placed wide apart and 

 strongly divaricate, basal joint minute, second long, being quite as long as the third joint 

 which bears soft pubescence, arista minutely pubescent about twice as long as the 

 antenna. 



Thorax shining black, rounded, with only two pairs of dorso-central bristles, the 

 other bristles on the disc being very small, scattered and few in number ; in some lights 

 there are indications of a sparse yellowish tomentum. Pleurae and scutellum shining 

 black, the latter rounded, semicircular and with four marginal bristles only. 



Abdomen long ovate, shining black but somewhat rugose, bearing a few scattered 

 hairs but no bristles ; the first segment is very short, the second and third long, forming 

 the major portion of the abdomen, the fourth about half the length of the third and the 

 fifth shorter still ; hypopygium globular and subterminal. 



Legs pale yellow, the front tibiae and tarsi and the extreme knees of the posterior legs 

 slightly brownish ; second joint of hind tarsi one and a half times the length of the first and 

 slightly dilated ; bristles on middle tibiae very few and small, one or two above before the 

 middle and two or three apical, none beneath. 



Wings longer than the abdomen, uniformly tinged with brownish-yellow ; costal 

 cihation at base of wing very minute ; cubital vein nearly straight, ending practically 

 at wing tip ; second costal segment but very little longer than the third ; discal and 

 postical veins both continued beyond the postical cross-vein, the former somewhat indis- 

 tinctly nearly to the wing margin, the latter distinctly for about the length of the 

 cross-vein. Halteres whitish-yellow. 



Length about 1"5 mm. 



Two males, two females. 



Locality. Mahd : near Morne Blanc, X. 1908 ; and the high forest of Morue Blanc 

 and Pilot, X.— XL 1908. 



Var. hracata, n. var. 



Exactly like the type except for the darkened apical three-quarters of the middle, 

 and apical two-thirds of the hind, femora. 



Three females. 



Locality. Mahd : liigh forest of Morne Blanc and Pilot, X. — XL 1908 ; and Cascade 



Estate, about 800—1500 feet. 



