LIST OF DIPTERA. 1139 



Celyphus Africanus, n. s. Cupreo-purpureus, viridi et eyaneo varius, 

 capite antennis pedibusque fulvis, tibiis piceo cinctis, femoribw 

 posticis piceis. 



Head tawny, shining, bluish purple on the crown, somewhat 

 prominent above the insertion of the feelers : eyes red, very convex ; 

 facets small : sucker and palpi pitchy : feelers tawny, longer than 

 the head ; first joint club-shaped ; second irregularly conical, partly 

 brown above, much longer and broader than the first, one-third of 

 its length beyond the insertion of the third joint ; the latter spindle- 

 shaped, a little shorter and much more slender than the second ; 

 fourth slender, like a spine, less than one-fourth of the length of the 

 third : chest coppery purple, adorned with two green stripes, largely 

 punctured here and there ; a green spot on each side of the hind 

 border; scutcheon purplish-copper, more thickly and coarsely punc- 

 tured than the chest : abdomen dark bluish green : legs tawny ; 

 hind thighs pitchy ; an indistinct pitchy band round each shank. 

 Length of the body If line. 

 a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Kev. D. F. Morgan. 



