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narrow silvery-white spot. Halteres rather short, black, the 

 basal two-fifths of the stem pale yellow. Legs with the fore 

 coxse yellow; middle and hind coxae with the outer faces 

 largely black ; trochanters obscure brownish yellow ; femora 

 yellowish basally, the tips dark brown, these broadest on the 

 fore legs where less than the basal third is pale, narrowest on 

 the hind legs where it includes ouly the distal fifth ; tibiae 

 pale brown, the tips narrowly dark brown ; tarsi dai'k brown. 

 Wings with a faiut yellowish tinge ; the base of the wing 

 before the arculus darkened : basal half of cell 8c darkened; 

 stigma oval, hairy, dark brown ; narrow and indistinct brown 

 clouds at the origin of i?s, along the cord and outer end of 

 cell \st M2, and as indistinct clouds along the lougitudinal 

 veins and in the euds of cells 2nd M^, M^, Cui, and at the 

 end of vein \st A ; veins dark brownish black. Venation : 

 Sc moderately short_, Sc^ ending but little beyond mid-length 

 of Rs, Sc^ at the tip of SC]^ ; r at the tip of Ri ; cell \st M^ 

 rather small, not longer than vein Cu^ beyond it ; basal 

 deflection of Cuy a short distance before the fork of M. 



Abdominal segments one to four black, the caudal margins 

 broadly reddish yellow ; segments five to seven black, eight 

 and nine orange ; valves of the ovipositor short and blunt 

 as in this group of species. 



Hab. Southern Nigeria. 



Holotype, ? , Oshogbo [Dr. T. F. G. Mayer). 



Paratopotype, ? . 



Presented by the Entomological Research Committee, 

 1911. 422. 



Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 

 History). 



Tribe Antochini. 



Genus Ceratocheilus, Wesche. 



Ceratocheilus edwardsi, sp. n. 



Rostrum about as long as the body ; head light grey ; 

 mesonotal praescutum light reddish orange; remainder of 

 the mesonotura brown ; pleura with a broad dark brown 

 dorsal stripe; wings pale creamy with a heavy dark brown 

 pattern ; vein i?2-|-3 very long, bisinv;ous ; cell \st M^ closed, 

 basal deflection of Chty before the fork of M. 



Male. — Length (excluding rostrum) about 6*3 mm. ; wing 

 4"4 mm. ; rostrum about 6 mm. 



Rostrum very long and slender, approximately as long 

 as the bodv, dark brown, the extreme base almost black. 



