Coenosia velutinifacies (Emden, 1940: 221; 1941: 225)

(Figs 125–127)

Holotype male seen; right mid leg missing, abdomen a little damaged.

Diagnosis. General colour dark brown, a little shining; scutum and abdomen uniformly brown, without markings; frons, fronto-orbital plate, face and parafacial velvety black; postpedicel velvety black; wing infuscated; calypters very white; legs entirely dark brown; scutellum with four strong setae, and with setulae on disc; anterior katepisternal short, lower one about half the length of the long posterior one; upper calypter short, lower calypter about 2.5 times the length of the upper one and strongly projecting beyond it; haltere with knob brown; hind tibia with an anterior and an anterodorsal seta inserted at the same level; sternite 5 as in Fig. 125.

Male terminalia. Cercal plate and surstylus as in Fig. 126. Aedeagal complex as in Fig. 127.

Notes. Included in the niveifrons group. The name was made available by its inclusion in Emden’s (1940) key, whilst the formal description appeared a year later (Emden 1941). One male (not a paratype) dissected and illustrated.