in the British Museum. 19 



dark brown to produce an annulated appearance; sternites 

 more yellowish; eigrhth segment uniformly darkened. 



Uab. Southern Nigeria. 



Holot?/pe, J , Yaba, Lagos (Dr. L. H. Booth). 



Presented by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, 191 A. 

 55. 



Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 

 Hi^tory). 



Elephantomyia yiitidithorax is closest to E. ivahlbergi, 

 Bergroth (CatlVaria), from which it is distinguished by tlie 

 different coloration of the prsescutuni and pleura^ the dark 

 bruwn legs, the differently coloured al)(lominal tergitcs, and 

 the venation, the latter assuming that Bergroth's coniparisou 

 of his species with the genotype, E. westwoodi, is correct. 



Elephantoinyia neavei, sp. n. 



Rostrum less than half as long as the body, dark brown ; 

 head light brown, pale buffy grey adjoining the eyes ; meso- 

 notum buffy brown, the prcescutuni with a broad l}rowu 

 median stripe ; scutal lobes with dark brown centres ; wings 

 subhyaline, the stigma pale; cell i?;- at the wing-margin 

 bioad ; ceil Isi ilfg very small ; basal dellection of Cki before 

 the fork of M. 



Male. — Length (excluding rostrum) about 7'5 mm. ; 

 wing 7'5 mm. ; rostrum 3'3 mm. 



Rostrum only moderately elongated, slender, dark brown ; 

 palpi rather long, dark brown. Autennai dark browni.sh 

 black, normal for this genus. Head light brown, pale buft'y 

 giey adjoining the inner margins of the eyes ; vertex 

 narrow. 



Pronotura dark brown. Mesonotal praiscutum ligiit buffy 

 brown with a broad, dark brown, median s^tripe, whicli is 

 somewhat more reddish anteriorly ; scutum light butty 

 brown, the centres of the lobes dark brown ; remainder of 

 the mesonotum pale buti'y brown. Pleura pale plumbeous 

 brown. Halteres pale. Legs with the coxa) and trochanters 

 pale brownish yellow ; remainder of the legs pale yellowish 

 brown, the terminal tarsal segments darker brown. Wings 

 subhyaline, the bases pale yellow ; stigma pale brown ; veins 

 pale l)rown, /S'c more yellowish. Venation : ^'c rather short, 

 ending about opposite two-thirds the length of the lon^■ 

 straigiit Rs, Sco at the tip of Sci ; B^^z rather short, parallel 

 with Jii^^ to near its tip, when it bends slightly cephalad 

 so that cells Hi and /?;j are approximately e(jual at the 



