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sides, venter loosely white pollinose. Hairs of the abdomen black, 
short, and sparse, the first four ventrals with longer white pubescence. 
Hypopj^gium large, terminal, valvate, black, shining, and more 
densely black hairy than the rest of the body ; the upper valves slightly 
shorter than the lower, the hairs becoming longer at their apex, the 
middle of the upper side bowed out so as to accommodate a pair of 
short black filaments ; lower valves tipped with a dense fascicle of 
pure white, flattened hairs. 
Ground color of legs black, becoming reddish apicall}^ Coxse 
closely white pollinose ; front coxse white pubescent and with a few 
white bristles beneath ; middle and hind coxae with straggling white 
hairs, and each with a lateral vertical row of three black bristles as 
well as with an apical fringe beneath. Femora more loosely pollinose, 
all the femora with a row of about six black bristles along the outer 
lower edge, front femora with a similar row of longer bristles along 
the upper edge. Tibiae and tarsi subshining, more closel}'- black bristly, 
the bristles of the hind tarsi long, pulvilli small. 
Wings small, clear hyaline, veins narrow, blackish ; neuration 
normal, second submarginal cell four times as long as broad, fourth 
posterior cell narrowh^ sessile with the second basal. Halteres 
destroyed. 
Described from a single male taken by Dr. Hans Brauns. 
January i, 1905, at Willowmore, Cape Colony, South Africa. 
