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Mr. C. G. Lamb on Exotic Chloropidse. 



Thorax as in last species, but much more shining, the 

 pleural and the two scutellar bristles long, the scutellum with 

 side-rows of tour or five smaller ones ; pleura very shining- 

 black. 



Wings clear, with pale veins (fig. 19). Halteres bright 

 orange. 



Fig. 19. 



Epimadiza nitida, x 30. 



Legs : front pair — the long coxa and the trochanter bright 

 orange, femur (except at base), tibia, and tarsus (except last 

 two yellow joints) all shining black : mid and hind pairs — 

 coxa black, trochanter dark orange, femur black (except the 

 tip), the rest yellow, 



Abdomen all shining black. 



Size 2i mm. 



NATAL : Durban (F. Mnir, Camb. Coll.). 



Anatrichus, Loew. 



A. erinaceus, Loew. 



Specimens of the form with darkened front tarsi and of 

 that with bright legs are in the Camb. Coll. from Durban 

 {F. Muir). 



Var. pygmcPM. — There is a remarkable form from Ceylon 

 which is practically identical with the darker variety of the 

 type, but is only about f of its length. 



Ceylon: Peradeniya (J. C. F. Fryer, Camb. Coll.). 



[To be continued.] 



