A/riran Phlehotomic Diptero. IJIO 



milky stivak, wliicli l)()r<lcrs distal marfjin of transverse band 

 as far us lourth posterior cell, separating apical blotch and 

 infnscation below it from transverse band. Hultcres dark 

 brown, knobs paler below. Leys : eoxie clothed with whitish 

 hair, middle and hind coxa; grey, front eo.\;e bnlf, grey at 

 the tip ; trocdianters, tips of femora and of first joint of each 

 ta?*sus, and last fonr joints of each tarsns cxce[)t at extreme 

 base dark brown, front tibiue brownish at di>tal extremity; 

 femora clothed with pale yellowish or whitish hair, tib;ic 

 clothed with short blackish liair, hind tibiie also with short 

 yellowish hair on outer side at base. 



Cape Colony : type and two other specimens from Ann- 

 shaw, King William's Town District {Miss Barrett). 



The coloration of the antennre and their sw(dlen first joints, 

 in conjuiictiou with the sharply defined wing-markings, will 

 snfliee to distinguish this species from any other African 

 Clirijsops at present known. 



Genus Kiii.nomyza^ Wicd. 



Rhinomyza perpulcra, sp. n. 



$ . — Length (G specimens) 12*.'25 to 1.26 mm.; width of 

 liead 4 to 4'2 mm. ; width of front at vertex 05 toO'G mm. ; 

 length of wing ITS to 12 mm. 



Dorsum of tliorax mummy-broicn, uiiicolorous ; dorsum of 

 abdomen tawny -ochraceous, with two broady black, longitudinal 

 strijiis, either entire or more or less incomplete after reachimj 

 hind niaryin of third seyment ; pleurce, pectus, and venter buff, 

 u'ithout markinys ; both upper and lower branches of third 

 Joint of uiiteuure tony and slender ; winys with a yellowish 

 tinye, especially in prowimal half; costal border, including 

 distal extremity down to level of posterior branch of third 

 longitudinal vein^ first basal and proximal two-thirds of second 

 basal cell, and a broad transverse band, starting from costal 

 border below stigma, extending to posterior margin, and curving 

 back into tips of anal and axillary cells, clove-brown. 



Head orange-bntf, front immediately above base of antenna; 

 and prominent central portion of face darker (tawny or 

 tawny ochraceous), the latter more or less shining; elongate, 

 shining frontal callus shaped as in Rh. denticornis, Wied., 

 tawny, with upper half dark brown, or at least with a dark 

 brown spot above middle ; oceliar spot dark brown, con- 

 nected with upper extremity of callus; lower surface of 

 head clothed with buff-yellow hair; proximal joint o( palpi 

 orange-buff, clothed with buff-yellow hair, terminal joint 



