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Male. Piceous, slender. Head testaceous, with some black bristles. An- 

 tennse pale testaceous, shorter than the face ; second joint black above; 

 third elongate conical, longer than the second. Thorax with some 

 black bristles ; sides and pectus pale testaceous, each of the former 

 with two piceous stripes. Abdomen linear, with a few short black 

 apical hairs, a little longer and narrower than the thorax. Legs 

 whitish testaceous; fore femora with some black bristles. Wings 

 black, cinereous towards the base, this hue extending most along the 

 hind border ; veins black ; discal transverse vein straight, parted by 

 half its length from the border, and by almost twice its length from 

 the prsebrachial transverse vein ; halteres whitish testaceous. Length 

 of the body 2^ lines ; of the wings 4 lines. 



G^en. Stymbaea, n. g. 



Mas. Corpus gracile. AntenncB epistoma fere attingentes; articulus 

 3"* linearis, 2o quadruplo longior ; arista brevissime pilosa. Thorax 

 elongatus. Abdomen lineare, thorace paulo brevius et angustius. 

 AlcB longissimse, venis subcostali et mediastinali conjunctis, vena ra- 

 diali valde undulata, vena cubitali subundulata. 



Male. Body slender. Head and thorax with a few bristles. Head full 

 as broad as the thorax ; face vertical. Proboscis short. Palpi mode- 

 rately long. Antennse nearly as long as the face ; third joint linear, 

 about four times the length of the second ; arista with very short hairs. 

 Thorax elongate ; scutellum rather large. Abdomen linear, a little 

 shorter and narrower than the thorax. Wings very long ; subcostal 

 and mediastinal veins united ; subcostal vein ending at rather beyond 

 one-third of the length of the wing; mediastinal vein ending at 

 somewhat beyond the middle; radial vein forming three curves, 

 abruptly bent to the costa at a little beyond three-fourths of the 

 length ; cubital vein very slightly undulating exteriorly ; discal trans- 

 verse vein straight, oblique, parted by less than half its length from 

 the border, and by less than its length from the prsebrachial trans- 

 verse vein. 



(dS. Stymbara vagaria. Mas. PaUide testacea, abdomine basi pe- 

 dibus halteribusque albidis, alis cinereis guttis marginalibus indistinctis 

 pallidioribus. 



Male. Pale testaceous, whitish beneath. Abdomen towards the base 

 and legs whitish. Wings cinereous, Avith indistinct paler dots along 

 the costa and along the hind border ; veins black ; halteres whitish. 

 Length of the body 2\ lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



The specimen here described is injured, and its colour and 

 markings are somewhat indefinite. 



Gren. PioPHiLA, Fallen. 

 67. PxoPHiLA? DISJUNCTA. Foem. Nigra, capite maculis duabus 

 chalybseis subtus flavescente, antennis piceis, pedibus flavis, tibiis 



