40 PROP. M. BEZZI. 



1. Camaromyia acrophthalma, sp. nov. 



Very distinct from all the other known species on account of its peculiar pattern 

 at the apex of the wings, the hyaline spot between the ends of the 3rd and 4th longi- 

 tudinal veins being replaced by a brown, eye-like spot ; besides, the ovipositor is 

 much longer than in the other known females. 



$. Length of the body, 4 mm. ; of the ovipositor, 2 mm. ; of the wing, 4"5 mm. 

 Head entirely whitish yellow and immaculate, even on the occiput, with only a 

 small black ocellar dot ; frons gently rounded in the middle and prominent in 

 profile, about as broad as long ; lunula whitish ; face narrower than the frons, 

 projecting very little at the upper mouth-border ; eyes rounded ; cheeks and 

 jowls narrow. Antennae yellowish, a little shorter than the face ; third joint twice 

 as long as the second, attenuated towards the end and distinctly pointed at tip ; 

 arista bare. Palpi broad, spatulate, pale yellowish, with black bristles ; proboscis 

 yellow, short and simple. All the cephalic bristles are whitish ; 3 lower or., the 

 anterior one being smaller ; oc. long and stout. Thorax and scutellum entirely 

 pale yellowish, clothed with whitish dust and with whitish pubescence ; all the 

 bristles are pale yellowish ; middle scp. well developed ; prsc. and dc. placed well 

 forwards ; apical scutellar bristles long and crossed. Mesophragma black, grey- 

 dusted ; halteres whitish. Abdomen coloured and dusted like the thorax, and 

 likewise with whitish pubescence and whitish bristles ; ovipositor longer than the 

 abdomen, with the basal half swollen and conical, and the apical half cylindrical ; 

 it is of a shining reddish colour, broadly black at the end and clothed with whitish 

 pubescence in the basal part. Legs entirely pale yellowish ; front femora with 

 5-6 yellow bristles beneath ; apical spur of the middle tibiae yellowish ; hind 

 tibiae with no distinct row. Wings long and narrow, with a distinct costal bristle ; 

 2nd, 3rd and 4th longitudinal veins slightly diverging near the end, the last portion 

 of the fourth being bent at base ; 3rd vein bare ; small cross-vein placed after the 

 middle of the discoidal cell and parallel with the hind cross-vein ; discoidal cell 

 twice as broad at end as at base ; lower angle of the anal cell acute but not produced. 

 Veins pale yellowish, but darkened on the dark parts. Pattern of typical shape, 

 but of a very pale colour, only the apical patch being dark brown ; stigma colourless ; 

 the base broadly, half the 3rd posterior cell and the axillary cell almost hyaline. 

 The apical blackish pattern occupies the lower end of the submarginal, the end of 

 the first posterior and the upper end of the 2nd posterior cell ; at apex there is 

 the peculiar eye-shaped spot. 



Type $, a single specimen from Nyasaland, Chiromo, Ruo R., 23. ix. 1916 

 (R. C. Wood). 



2. Camaromyia helva, Loew, Berl. Ent. Zeits., v, 1861, p. 294, pi. ii, fig. 24. 



To judge from Loew's description of the head and from the figure of the wing, 

 the present species may belong here. But as the proboscis is described as bicubitate 

 and the bristles of the frons and thorax as black, its location here is doubtful. 



Described from Caffraria, I have recorded it in 1908 from Erythraea as an Oxijna, 

 but wrongly, as the abdomen is said to be spotted ; probably I had before me a 

 specimen of the above-described Euribia tristrigata. 



