584 Mr. J. R. Malloch on Exotic Muscavidce. 



Length 5 mm. 



Type, Embu, Kenya Colony, 20. ii. 1914 (G. St. Orde 

 Browne). 



Caricea attenuicornis, sp. n. 



Female. — Dorsum including frons chocolate-brown, the 

 frons opaque, thorax and abdomen shining, the former 

 slightly so ; face, pleura, and lateral margins of abdominal 

 tergites whitish pruinescent, that on tergites extending 

 towards the middle on the anterior margins, but not entirely 

 over dorsum. Antenme black, palpi fuscous. Legs yellow; 

 mid and hind coxae, a streak along dorsal surfaces of fore 

 femora, and the apices of mid and hind femora infuscated. 



Eyes covering almost the entire side of head^ facets much 

 enlarged in middle close to face ; frons flat, bristles rubbed 

 off in type ; antennae long and slender, inserted above 

 middle of profile, third segment tapered to apex, tip acute; 

 arista with its longest hairs as long as its basal width ; para- 

 facial and cheek linear. Anterior and lower sterno- pleural 

 bristles short, a long setulose hair between upper and lower 

 bristles as in some of the other species. Tibial bristles very 

 long, the pair on hind tibia at middle transverse. Inner 

 cross-vein at middle of discal cell, outer one a little more 

 than its own length from apex of fifth vein. 



Length 6 mm. 



Type, South-east edge of Kenya Forest, Kenya (*olony, 

 7. ii. 1911, 5000-6000 feet (T. J. Anderson). 



Caricea incequivitta, sp. n. 



Male and female. — Black, densely yellowish-grey pruines- 

 ceot. Head black, orbits grey; antenufe black; palpi dark 

 brown. Thorax with a linear median vitta and a very broad 

 one on each side of it dark brown, the vittae nowhere con- 

 fluent, the lateral pair continued over anterior lateral angles 

 of scutellum ; mesopleura brown above. Abdomen with 

 median and lateral brown spots on dorsum. Legs yellow, 

 fore femora almost entirely, mid and hind pairs dorsally 

 and apically blackened ; tarsi brown. 



Longest hairs on arista about as long as width of third 

 antennal segment. Anterior sterno-pleural bristle very 

 short and weak ; basal pair of marginal scutellar bristles 

 much shorter than the apical pair. Abdomen of male 

 cylindrical, the hypopygium small, fourth sternite with two 

 or three long hairs apically, processes of fifth sternite with 



