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distal portion of femora, tibiae and tarsi a nearly uniform dark brown. 

 Ovipositor nearly as long as the abdomen, a thick group of moderately 

 stout, hooked spines at the base of the slender, sparsely setose, tapering 

 lobes, the latter with a length nearly three times the width. 



$. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae dark brown, sparsely haired, extend- 

 ing to the base of the abdomen, the fifth with a length one-fourth 

 greater than its diameter, the terminal segment narrowly oval. Palpi : 

 first segment subquadrate, the second with a length twice its diameter, 

 broader, the third a little longer and more slender and the fourth a 

 little longer and more slender than the third. Colorational characters 

 wanting; claws moderately stout, strongly curved, unidentate, the pul- 

 villi as long as the claws. Genitalia : basal clasp segment rather short, 

 stout ; terminal clasp segment long, swollen basally, subacute apically ; 

 dorsal plate short, broad, deeply and triangularly emarginate, the lobes 

 narrowly rounded distally; ventral plate long and tapering to a nar- 

 rowly rounded apex ; harpes long, stout, tapering apically, with an irreg- 

 ular quadrate tooth ; style long, slender, narrowly rounded distally. 



Type Cecid. a2 



Pseudhormomyia fluvialis n. sp. 



The midge described below is provisionally referred to this 

 genus and was received from T. V. Ramakrishna, Government 

 Entomologist, Coimbatore, India, under date of August 4th. 

 1916. The species is stated by him to be very abundant locally, 

 breeding on Panicum fluitans, a common grass in wet land 

 areas, galls being found both in the terminal and the side 

 shoots. The specimens were labeled No. i, 29, VII. '16, South 

 India, Coimbatore, from Panicum fluitans, Y. R. Rao Coll. 



$ . Length 3 mm. Antennae one-half longer than the body, rather 

 thickly haired, yellowish brown; 14 segments, the fifth with the stems 

 approximately equal, each with a length one-half greater than the 

 diameter; the basal enlargement subglobose, the distal pyriform and 

 with a constriction near the middle, each enlargement with a whorl of 

 long, stout setae, the basal with one and the distal with two circtnnfili, 

 the loops moderately long and thick ; terminal segment with the basal por- 

 tion of the stem produced with a length five times its diameter, the 

 distal enlargement shaped like a truncate cone, the length one-half 

 greater than its diameter and apically with an equally long, moderately 

 stout, fusiform appendage. Palpi : first segment subquadrate, the sec- 

 ond narrowly oval, with a length nearly twice its diameter, the third 

 twice the length of the second, slender. Mesonotum purplish brown, 

 the submedian lines sparsely haired. Scutellum and postscutellum 



