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tapering to an irregular, narrowly rounded apex. Mesonotum 

 dark brown. Scutellum reddish brown, postscutellum yellowish. 

 Abdomen mostly dark red, the wings subhyaline and the wing 

 venation practically as in the above described male and with the 

 costal cell decidedly more obscured; halteres yellowish basally, 

 brownish apically. Coxae and legs mostly brownish straw. Ovi- 

 positor short, up-turned, the terminal lobes subquadrate, with a 

 length one-fourth greater than the width nd bearing a few long, 

 slender setae and numerous shorter ones. Other characters prac- 

 tically as in the above described male. Cecid. 1695. 



This sex is provisionally associated with the preceding. 



Streptodiplosis, n. gen. 



A remarkable male referred to this genus suggests, in the some- 

 what broad wings, an affinity with Lobopteromyia Felt, from which 

 it is easily separated by the very peculiar genitalia. Type 5^. 

 indica. 



Streptodiplosis indica, n. sp. 



The one male described below was labeled "number 38, Kusti, 

 Kalan Estate, North Wynaad, South India, February 16, on leaves 

 infested by My tilaspis piperis Green. U. Bahadur." It is probably 

 predaceous upon this scale insect. 



Male. — Length .75 mm. Antennae twice the length of the 

 body, rather thickly haired, pale grayish, the stems whitish trans- 

 parent; 14 segments, the fifth having stems with a length two 

 and one-half and three and one-half times their diameters, re- 

 spectively; basal enlargement globose, with a sub-basal whorl of 

 long, stout setae and a subapical circumfilum, the moderately stout 

 loops extending nearly to the globose distal enlargement, which 

 latter bears similar setae and loops; terminal segment having the 

 basal enlargement oblate, a stem with a length about three times 

 its diameter and the distal enlargement prolonged, with a length 

 over twice its diameter and tapering at the distal third to an 

 obliquely rounded apex. Palpi apparently quadri-articulate, the 

 first segment small, subquadrate, the second with a length over 

 twice its diameter, the third one-half longer, more slender, and the 

 fourth one-half longer and more slender than the third. Face 

 white. Mesonotum, scutellum, postscutellum and abdomen 



