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Wings suhhyaline, brownish, shorter than the body, the third vein, 

 uniting with the margin well beyond the apex, the fifth vein joining 

 the posterior margin at the distal fourth, its branch beyond the 

 basal half; halteres yellowish basally, brownish yellow apically. 



Coxae reddish brown ; legs mostly yellowish brown, the tarsi some- 

 what darker. 



Genitalia; basal clasp segment short, broad, swollen basally; terminal 

 clasp segment moderately long, nearly straight ; dorsal plate short, 

 broad, deeply and narrowly emarginate, the lobes narrowly rounded; 

 ventral plate a little longer, broad, broadly rounded apically. 



9 Length 5 mm. Antennae probably three-fourths the length of 

 the body, sparsely haired, dark brown ; 14 segments, the fifth with a 

 stem one-fourth the length of the subcylindric basal enlargement, which 

 latter has a length about four times its diameter and low, looped cir- 

 cumfili near the basal third and subapically. 



Palpi; first segment irregular, the second a little longer, subquadrate, 

 the third more than twice the length of the second, slender and nearly 

 uniform in diameter. 



Mesonotum dark brownish black, the submedian lines sparsely haired. 

 Scutellum and postscutellum concolorous, the former with a few 

 golden hairs apically. Abdomen shining dark brownish black, sparsely 

 clothed with short hairs. 



Wings slightly fuscous and only about two-thirds the length of the 

 abdomen, the third vein uniting with the margin just beyond the apex 

 of the wing, the fifth with the indistinct anterior branch joining the 

 posterior margin at the distal fourth and the posterior branch beyond 

 the basal half; halteres yellowish orange basally, fuscous subapically. 



Coxae and legs a nearly uniform dark brown; claws moderately stout, 

 strongly curved subapically, simple; pulvilli nearly as long as the claws. 



Ovipositor short, the lobes irregularly oval, with a length about one- 

 half greater than the width and rather thickly setose. 



Type Cecid. a 2781. 



Dyodiplosis andropogonis n. sp. 



The species described below was received from Prof. T. V. 

 Ramakrishna, Government Entomologist, Agricultural College 

 and Research Institute, Coimbatore, South India, under date of 

 November 9, 1916. accompanied by a statement to the effect 

 that the midges were reared from galls in a common perennial 

 grass, Andropogon annulatus, at Adoni, Bellary District, Sep- 

 tember 23, 1916, and labeled Y. R. Rao Coll. These insects 

 are similar to though quite distinct from Pseudhormomyia flu- 



