in the British Museum. 33 



chitiuized rod that bears a short lateral spine on its dorsal 

 face. 



Hab. Nyasaland, 



Holotype, ,$ , Mlanje, January, February, 1914 [Dr. J. B. 

 Davey) . 



Paratopotype, c? • 



Presented by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, 1914. 

 303, 1915. 58. 



Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 

 History). 



This species needs no comparison with any of the known 

 species of the genus. Togetiier with the last-descrii)ed 

 species, E, iynava, the present form must be considered au 

 aberrant member of the genus Eriopttra, and yet there are 

 no sufficient tangible characters oi\ which to remove either 

 from this large and somewhat heterogeneous group. 



Genus Gnophomyia, Osten-Sacken. 

 Gnophomyia peramoena, sp. n. 



Head, thoracic pleura, and segments seven to- nine of 

 the abdomen black ; mesonotum, halteres, and base of the 

 abdomen orange ; legs black, the bases of the femora yellow; 

 Avings dark brown with a broad white band before tlie cord 

 that does not attain the costal, subcostal, or aual cells; 

 distal cells of the wing pubescent. 



Male. — Length about 7 mm. ; wing 7"2 mm. 



Female. — Length about 9 5 mm.; wing 8':2 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Anteunai dark brownish 

 black, the basal flagellar segments rather elongate, a little 

 produced distally on the inner face, outer flagellar segments 

 more oval. Head shiny black. 



Pronotal scutum deep black. Mesonotum and dorso- 

 pleural membranes orange. Tuberculate pits a little 

 anterior to the level of the pseudosutural fovere. Pleura 

 deep black. Halteres orange. Legs with the coxae and 

 trochanters black ; femora black with the bases yellow, 

 narrowest on the fore femora where it occupies a little more 

 than one-third of the segment, broadest on the hind legs 

 where it includes about three-hfths of the segment ; tibiae 

 and tarsi black. Wings dark brown, variegated with white; 

 a broad white band before the cord, extending from vein li 

 into cell 6'//i, very distinct in cells 2nil lii, R, and M ; an oval 

 white spot in cell R before the origin of Rs ; a less distinct 

 pale area in the base of cell \st A, lacking in the tyi)c- 



Aim. d: Mag. N. llist. Ser. 'J. Vul. vi. ',\ 



