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THE AiNNALS 



MAGAZiiNE OF NATURAL HISTOEY. 



[NINTH y 1^111^8.] 

 No. 45. SEPTEMBER 1921. 



XXIV. — Exotic Muscaridae {Diptera). — III.* 

 By J. R. Malloch, Urbana, 111., U.S.A. 



African Species. 



Subfamily Phaoniin^. 



Genus Trupheopygus, nov. 



Generic characters. — Similar to Helhia, R.-D. Diflers 

 from that geuus in having the frons about one-third of the 

 head-width ; the abdomen subcylindrical^ slightly tapered 

 apically, the genitalia entirely concealed when the abdomen 

 is viewed from the side or above ; the fifth sternite deeply 

 cleft in centre ; hind tibia with one or more postero-dorsal 

 bristles at middle; prescutellar acrostichals absent ; scutellum 

 flattened above ; preapical scutellars absent. 



Genotype, the following species. 



Trupheopygus testaceus, sp. n. 



Male. — Pale testaceous yellow. Frons brown ; antennre 

 fuscous. Thoracic dorsum with four pale brown vittie ante- 

 riorly, and a patch of grey pruincscence between tiie dorso- 

 centrals posteriorly which extends to disc of scutellum. 

 Abdomen wdtli an indistinct pair of brown spots on second 



* For Part I., see Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (0) vii., Fob. 1921, pp. IGl- 

 173 ; Part II., ibid., May 1921, pp. 420-431. 



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