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ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



EPIDAPUS SCABIKI Hopkins, sp. nov. 



(The Potato-scab Gnat.) 

 Order DIPTERA; Family MYCETOPHILIDYE ; Subfamily SCIARINVE. 



FIG. 10. Epidapus scabiei. Male; enlarged 35 diameters, a, dorsal aspect of head and 

 thorax; b, genitalia ; c, middle joints of antennse ; f, ventral view of head, showing mouth- 



Male : Length, i to 1.5 mm. General color, dusky. Head round, dark, 

 pubescent above and on sides, hairs pointing forward. Eyes, black (purple 

 in balsam), situated near front part of the head, widely separated above, 

 margins converging near mouth-parts, with about 75 round, prominent 

 corneze in each eye, and with a few short hairs projecting from between 

 the corneas. Ocelli, three, of equal size, arranged in a triangle on vertex, 

 anterior one nearly in line with posterior margin of eyes. Palpi, thick, 

 cone-shaped, curved upward, joints obscure, with truncated pubescent tip; 



FIG. IT. Epidapus scaliei. Long wings of male enlarged 57 diameters, 

 showing venation, a, first longitudinal, b, third, c, fourth, d, fifth. 

 e, sixth, f, anterior cross-vein on thickened portion of the fourth vein. 



also a few long hairs. Proboscis, small, obscure. Antennae three-fourths 

 the length of the body, i6-jointed, all of the joints covered with short, 

 stiff hairs pointing towards the tip; first and second joints, large ; first 



