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Genus II. Halter. 



Ualtcr, Ramb. Ins. N6vr. p. 335 (1842). 



The time lias hardly yet arrived for subdividing this genus, 

 to which we may j)rovisioiialIy refer all the transpiivcnt-winged 

 species with long beaks. The species arc divisible into several 

 very distinct groups, most of which will probably hereafter 

 rank as genera. 



Section 1. 

 Hind wings linear, with a long dark baud before the extremity. 



*5. J falter afvlcana 



Nemopteryx africana, Leach, Zool. Misc. ii. p. 74, pi. Ixxxv. fig. 1 



(1815). 

 Nemoptera africana^ Gray, Griffith's Anim. Kingd. xv. p. 324, pi. cv. 



fig. 4; Westwood, Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. i. p. Ixxv (18-'36) ; Walker, 



List Neur. Ins. ii. p. 475. n. 14 (1853) ; Ilagen, Proc. Best. Soc. Nat. 



Hist, xxiii. p. 262. u. 10 (1888). 

 Nematoptera africana, Westwood, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1841, p. 12. 



n. 9 ; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. viii. p. 379. n. 9 (1842). 

 Nevioptcra bacillaris, King, Abhandl. Akad. Berl. 1830, p. 95, fig. 2. 

 Nematojitera bacillaris, Westwood, II. cc. p. 12. n. 10, p. 379. n. 10. 

 Nemoptera halterata, pt., Klug, /. c. p. 94 n. 8 (1836). 

 Nematoptera latipennis, Burm. Hando. Ent. ii. p. 986. n. 5 (1840). 

 Nematoptera latipennis, Westwood, //. cc. p. 12. n. 11, p. 379. n. 11. 



Hah. S. Africa. 



The type is in the British Museum. 



6. Halter remifera. 



ifera, ^ 

 ; Hag€ 



Hah. Cape. 



Nemoptera remifera, Westwood, Thes. Ent. Oxon. p. 179, pL xxxiii. 

 fig. 9 (1874) ; Ilagen, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, xxiii. p. 205. n. 11 

 (1888). 



7. Halter costalis. 



Nemoptera costalis, Westwood, Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. i. p. Ixxv (1836) ; 



Thes. Ent. Oxon. p. 179, pi. xxxiii. fig. 6 (1874). 

 NcDiatoptera costalis, Westw. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1841, p. 12. n. 13; 



Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. viii. p. 379. u. 13 (1842). 

 cJ. Nemoptera amjulata, Westwood, Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. i. p. Ixxv 



(1836) ; Duncan, .Tardine's Nat. Libr., Intr. Ent. p. 29.'), pi. xxvii. fig. 3 



(1840) ; Ilagen, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, xxiii. p. 259. n. 9 (1888). 

 Nematoptera anqulata, Westwood, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1841, p. 12. 



n. 12; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. viii. p. 379. n. 12 (1842). 

 Nemoptera awjula, Walk. List Neur. Ins. ii. p. 475. n. 16 (1863). 



Hah. Cape. 



