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THE ANNALS 



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MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTOKY. 



[NINTH SERIES.] 

 No. 6. JUNK 1918. 



XLVII. — .Votes on Exotic Chloropidae. — Part IT. Oscininse. 

 By C. G. Lamb, M.A., B.Sc, Clare College, Cambridge. 



[Concluded from p. 348.] 



Elachipteha, Macq. 



E. simplicipes, Beck. 



S. KHODE8IA: Salisbury (G. A. K. Marshall, Carab. 

 Coll.). 



E. conjuncta, Adams. 



In the Camb. Coll. is a long scries of an Elachiptera from 

 various parts of South Africa. It has the remarkable form 

 of abdomen in which the basal segments arc fused and much 

 elongated, the end segments being often almost entirely 

 drawn up inside the previous one ; the scutellum has one 

 main pair of tubercles and a smaller side pair ; the arista is 

 shaped like a sword-bayonet. The amount of blackening 

 varies very greatly with the locality. In the Chirinda Forest 

 the prevalent type is one in which the dorsum is all shining 

 black, the pleura red, the scutellum more or less blackened 

 basally and discally ; in one specimen the thorax is all 

 orange, with an entirely black scutellum. Near Durban the 



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