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eated, the hind legs reddish brown, not eiliated below, and smoother 

 on the basal portion. 



Two tvpical females from Durban. Xatal, a male and a very 

 small female from Howick, Xatal (/". P. Creyoe} ; a male from 

 Basutolanrl (11. ('r<m-.^itii/ . 



It would aj)pear that this species is only a southern form, but I 

 have si-eii specimens from Abyssinia in the collection of the Hun- 

 garian Museum : the speeies which I have assumed to be S. decora, 

 Walk., from the Congo, also belongs here. 



116. Syritta austeni, sp. n. 



J $ . Length of the body 7'o to S'.j mm. 



A species ivadily distinguishable, owing to the shape of the hind 

 tibiae of the male and the armature of the hind femora in both - 

 It is possibly allied to 8. n'ujrifemorata, Maequart, from Mauritius, 

 which shows a similar structure of the hind tibiae, but seems to 

 differ in the armature and coloration of the hind femora and in 

 the shape of face. 



Face and frons bare, covered with white dust on yellowish 

 ground ; jowls very small, shining pale yellow ; face carinate, 

 lightly concave in the middle, with the margin of the buccal cavity 

 prominent ; eyes of the male in contact for a moderate space, with 

 dilated front facets ; vertical triangle very narrow and elongate, 

 shining towards the ocelli, with white dust on the anterior half and 

 clothed with erect grey hairs ; frons of female with short pubes- 

 cence above, shining black round the ocelli ; and elsewhere covered 

 with a white dust, except on a more or less developed black spot 

 above thj antennae and a broad transverse band across the miMle ; 

 occiput black, with a white spot above on each side of the vertical 

 triangle, and with a white-dusted border below next the eyes ; 

 antennae entirely yellow, the third joint rather elongate, rounded 

 at the tip : proboscis black. Thorax dullish black, punctate, with 

 very short pale pubescence, the humeri, the sides down to the 

 suture, and the pleurae with a whitish-grey dust and longer whitish 

 pubescence ; in front of the scutellum there is on each side a white 

 spot. Scutellum more punctate than the remainder of the thorax, 

 but of the same colour, with a few thin short bristles on the 

 margin. Squamuhe and halteres white, the former with a white 

 fringe. Abdomen deep black, shining on the last segment alone, 

 almost bare, with the usual tuft of white hairs at the base and 

 some hairs on the sides of the last segment. In the male the first 

 M'U'mi-ut is black, grey on the sides ; second and third segments 

 yellow, whitish pollinose, with a black median line which is trian- 

 gularly dilated behind, forming a broad hind border ; fourth seg- 

 ment entirely shining black, with a yellow hind border and a basal 

 spot of white dust on each side ; genitalia swollen, black, Avith pale 

 pubescence : venter whitish, with black hind borders to the segments 

 and rather long pubescence at end of the last segment, but without 

 a distinct tuft of erect bristles, and onlv with a few tinv hairs. In 



