1G4 Dr. C. P. Alexander on 



Vicranomyia mendica, sp. n. 



Antennas dark brown ; head grey pruinose, the vertex 

 ■with a median dai'k line ; mesonotum yellowish brown, 

 prsescntum with three brown stripes ; femora dark brown, 

 the tips conspicuously yellow ; wings greyish subhy aline, 

 stigma brown ; Sc long, cell 1*^ M^ closed ; abdominal seg- 

 ments dark brown, the caudal margins of the segments 

 broadly pale. 



Male. — Length 55 mm. ; wing 66 mm. 



Female. — Length 6 mm. ; wing 7 mm. 



Rostrum slightly produced, brown ; palpi dark brown. 

 Antennse dark brown, the elongate terminal segment paler 

 brown ; flaoellar segments elongate-oval. Head light grey, 

 the vertex with a dark, elongate, median stripe. 



Pronotum yellowish testaceous, dark brown medially. 

 Mesonotal pra3scutum with three conspicuous dark brown 

 stripes, the median stripe longest and broadest ; lateral 

 stripes indistinctly delimited at their anterior ends ; pale 

 interspaces narrow ; lateral margins of preescutum sparsely 

 pruinose ; scutum testaceous, the lobes dark brown ; scu- 

 tellum and postnotum sparsely pruinose. Pleura testaceous ; 

 a brownish area on mesepisternum. Halteres yellow, the 

 knobs dark brown. Legs with the coxae and trochanters 

 concolorous with the pleura ; femora testaceous basally, 

 passing into dark brown before the tips ; apices conspicuous 

 pale yellow ; remainder of the legs dark brown. Wings 

 greyish subhy aline, the costal and subcostal cells slightly 

 more saturated; stigma oval, brown; veins dark brown. 

 Venation : Sc long, Sci extending to about opposite four- 

 fifths Bs ; Sc^ at tip of Sci ; Rs long, gently arcuated ; r at 

 tip of i?i ; basal deflection of -R4+5 about equal to or a little 

 longer than the deflection of M-i^^', cell 1st M2 about as 

 long as the outer section of C'ui ; basal deflection of Ctii at, 

 or immediately before, the fork of M, longer than Cu2. 



Abdominal segments dark brown, the posterior margins of 

 the segments broadly pale. 



Hub. Cameroun. 



Holotype, S, Bidu, July 24, 1920 (J. A. Reis). 



Allotopotype, ? . 



Paratopotype, ? . 



Dicranomyia submendica, sp. n. 

 General coloration brownish yellow, the thoracic pleura 



