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width of head, sides parallel, shining black, with a small patch of 

 white pubescence in middle. Thorax shining black or blue-black, 

 closely punctulate ; dorsnm with blackish-brown pubescence and 

 two moderately wide well-separated stripes from anterior margin 

 to hind margin, or even indistinctly carried over part of the 

 scutellum, composed of very short whitish-grey pubescence ; 

 hutneri rather prominent, shining bright brown, bare ; sides of 

 thorax shining black, mainly covered with longer or shorter whitish- 

 grey pubescence. Scutellum concolorous with dorsum, hind mar- 

 gin with a little grey pubescence ; the spine at each hind corner 

 strong, long, black, and pubescent. Abdomen shining black or 

 blue-black, closely punctulate, with dark brown pubescence on 

 dorsum and longer whitish-grey pubescence at sides and on the 

 concolorous venter ; a tendency to form a hair-spot towards sides 

 of each segment, especially on 3rd and 4th ; underside of last 

 segment bare, shining. Legs black, shortly grey pubescent ; tips 

 of tarsi brown below. Wings with base narrowly, costal cell, 

 base of 1st basal cell and the axillary cell, clear ; rest of wing 

 dark brown, a little paler on hind margin; 5th vein rather more 

 deeply infuscated ; halteres pale yellow. 



Length, 9-14 mm. 



Described from several specimens in the Indian Museum : 

 Tenasserim (Dolierty} ; Semarang, Java, viii. 1909, and Depok, 

 Java, x. 1907 (Jacobson). 



Genus NEGRITOMYIA, Big. 



Niyritomyia, Bigot, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, (5) rii, p. Ixxiv (1877). 

 Negritomyia, Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (5) ix, p. 190 (1879). 



GENOTYPE, Ephipplum maculipenne, Macq.; by original de- 

 signation. 



Antennae nearly cylindrical, base a little pubescent, 1st and 2nd 

 segments subequal, 1st much shorter than 3rd, arista apical, about 

 as long as the whole antenna, densely, shortly, and uniformly 

 pubescent. Eyes contiguous in tf , distinctly apai-t in $ , densely 

 pubescent in both sexes. Thorax with a long spine on each side ; 

 scutellum with two long spines. Wings with four endings to the 

 4th longitudinal vein, all reaching the border. 



Range. Africa, Ceylon, Malay Archipelago, Australia. 



22. Negritomyia macnlipennis, Macq. 



Ephippium maculipenne, Macquart, Dipt. Exot. Supp. iv, p. 54 



(1849), rf. 



Negritomyia maculipennis, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. i, p. 114 (1907), 

 & vii, p. 451 (1912). 



$ . Head black, with a little short whitish pubescence ; eyes 

 black, shortly pubescent ; frons at vertex about one-fifth the width 

 of the head, widening at level of antennae to nearly one-third ; an 

 indistinct whitish mark above each antenna ; palpi black, with 



