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Typical si)ecies ^(jophagamyia punjens, sp. n. It is 

 worthy ol" note that the throe representatives of the fjfeims 

 j-K(joi>hii[!iihi[i'ui at present known, all of which are described 

 helow, are island forms, the typical species having ])eeu 

 obtained in Zanzibar and the other two s^ieeies in Rodri- 

 guez I. and Astove I. respectively. 



^Eyophagamyia piinyens, sp. n. 



(^ ? . — Length, ^ (7 specimens) 10"2 to ll'To mm., $ 

 (4 specimens) 9'G to 112 mm. ; widtli of liead, (^ 3 to 

 375 mm., ? 2'8 to 3o mm. ; width of front of ? at vertex. 

 0-5 to 00 mm. ; length of proboscis, ($ 2 mm. (in normal 

 ])Osition) to 3o mm. (protruded), ? 1*75 to2'5 mm. ; length 

 of wing, (^ 7 75 to 9 mm., ? 8 to 9*25 mm. 



Frontal trium/le in r^ , viewed from above, hri(/ht cream- 

 coloured or glistening white, pullinose ; front and face in ? 

 dull greyish cream-coloured ; first and second Joints of antenna 

 in both selves buff or ocliraceous-buff] third joint clove-broivn ; 

 dorsum of thorax dark olivaceous-grey in (^ , lighter grey in $ , 

 in both sexes with faint darker streaks but icithout distinct 

 markings; abdomen in (^ ochraceous or tawny -ochraceous, 

 with on dorsum a very conspicuous, blackish slate-coloured, 

 median longitudinal stripe ; abdomen in ? slate-grey on 

 dorsum, the sides of the first four and lateral margins of re- 

 maining segments dull ochracenus-buff. 



Head: face and jowls in both sexes clothed with whitish 

 hair, short on face, longer on jowls ; upper three-fourths of 

 front in ? clothed with minute whitish hairs, mingled to- 

 wards vertex with some blackish hairs ; occij)ut in both sexes 

 smoke-grey ; j)alpi buff; proboscis greyish clove-brown, 

 labella clove-brown ; third joint of antenme buff at extreme 

 base. Thorax : pleurre and pectus grey, lighter in $ than 

 in ($ , clothed in both sexes with whitish hair ; dorsum 

 clothed with short, erect, yellowish hair in (^ , and with 

 similar, whitish or yellowish-white hair in ? . Abdomen ; 

 median stripe on dorsum of ^ extending fi'om base to distal 

 extremity, narrower thari elsewhere on third and fourth, or 

 third, fourth, and fifth segments, dorsum of sixth segment 

 in some c? c? ^or most part or entirely blackish slate- 

 coloured ; venter ochraceous in ^, ochraceous- buff in 5 , 

 without markings ; abdomen clothed in ($ with short, ap- 

 pressed, pale ochre-yellow hairs, in $ with similar pale 

 yellowish hairs, on dorsum in both sexes mingled with black 

 luiirs towards distal extremity ; ochraceous-buff area on 

 dorsal side of first four segments in $ varying in width, 



