38 PROF. M. BEZZI. 



Type <J and type $, and some additional specimens of both sexes in the writer's 

 collection, and a g cotype in the British Museum, from Erythraea, Ghinda, 

 December 1916 (Dr. A. Mochi).* 



XXXII. Campiglossa, Kondani (1870). 



The species of the present genus are robust and have a light grey, dark-spotted 

 body ; they have a very broad and rather buccate head, and are easily recognisable 

 by the rather broad wings, which have a peculiar and rich wing pattern, recalling 

 that of Hoplochaeta. But in C. grandinata, Rondani, evidently a member of the 

 present genus, the wing pattern is like that of the .EMaresto-group with non- 

 radiating border (Pliomelaena), being however distinguished by the more numerous 

 hyaline discal dots. All the known species of Campiglossa have two hyaline spots 

 in the stigma, and usually these spots are of very great size. 



1. Campiglossa perspicillata, sp. nov. (PI. i, fig. 10). 



A robust and handsome species, very near irrorata, Fallen, and cribellata, Bezzi, 

 but distinguished from both in having all the macrochaetae of head and thorax 

 whitish, and the basal hyaline spot of the stigma reduced to a narrow streak. 



$. Length of the body, 4 '5 mm. ; of the ovipositor, 1 mm. ; of the wing, 4 mm. ; 

 breadth of the wing, 2 "2 mm. Head very broad, broader than high and distinctly 

 broader than the thorax ; occiput dark grey on middle and above, whitish below ; 

 frons flattened, but rather prominent in front of the antennae, about 3 times as 

 broad as the eye and distinctly broader than long ; it is whitish, with a double 

 longitudinal yellow stripe, more orange on the front half ; the broad ocellar triangle 

 and the large lunula are whitish ; face short and broad, with less prominent mouth- 

 border, entirely whitish ; cheeks proportionally broad and white ; jowls broad, 

 immaculate, distinctly buccate. Antennae short and thick, considerably separate 

 at base, pale yellowish in colour ; third joint not longer than the thickened and short 

 bristly second joint, distinctly darker than it in colour and obtuse at end ; arista 

 long, thickened at base, microscopically pubescent. Mouth opening very broad ; 

 palpi whitish, with a few short black bristles at end ; proboscis short and thick, 

 with the terminal part distinctly bent backwards. All the bristles are whitish and 

 those of the occipital row are thickened ; oc. stout ; only 2 lower or. Thorax and 

 scutellum black, but densely covered by a pale greyish, almost bluish dust, which 

 is more whitish on the pleurae ; there are no distinct dark markings, but the dorsal 

 bristles are inserted on darkish dots ; the short pubescence is whitish ; all the 

 bristles are stout and whitish ; the prsc. are placed only a little behind the line of 

 the a. sa. and thus the dc. are placed much before it, very near the suture. Scutellum 

 convex and short ; its basal bristles are very long and inserted over blackish spots ; 

 the apical ones are very short, rudimentary, decussate. Mesophragma like the 

 back. Halteres whitish. Abdomen broad, coloured like the thorax, with 2 rows of 

 broad, rectangular, not sharply defined, blackish, transverse spots, but the basal 

 segment is immaculate ; bristles whitish ; ovipositor short, flattened, obtuse, 

 shining black. Legs pale yellowish, but the 4 posterior femora distinctly darkened 

 by dark grey dust ; they have whitish hairs and 4-5 bristles on the front pair 



* [The specimen figured is from Nyasaland, Mt. Mlanje, 23 .iv. 1913 (8. A. Neave).—Er>.] 



