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Legs : coxcC and trochanters all mottled brown and white scales ; 

 fore femora dark brown with apical white spot, tibiae dark, ist and 2nd 

 tarsal joints with tiny basal white spots, remaining joints dark; mid- 

 femora dark with narrow light line ventrally, apex white, tibiae dark with 

 very small basal white spots, ist and 2nd tarsal joints with small basal 

 white spots, and a couple of white scales at base of third joint on one leg, 

 the rest dark ; hind femora white at base and as a line on cephalic aspect 

 to near the apex, apex white, tibise dark with tiny ba5al white spot, ist, 

 2nd, 3rd and 4th tarsal joints dark with broad white basal bands, last 

 joint pure white. 



Wing : brown scaled ; cells rather long, ist submarginal distinctly 

 longer and about the same width as 2nd posterior; base of third long 

 vein and mid cross-vein meet and of about equal length, posterior cross- 

 vein a trifle longer and distant more than twice its length. Halteres dark* 



Length 5 mm., without proboscis. 



Habitat, Cottabato, Mindanao, P. L 



Taken December. 



Described from two quite perfect specimens sent by the Surgeon at 

 the Post. 



The mesonotum suggests D. fusca, Theob., but the third long vein is 

 not carried back, and the leg markings are, of course, quite distinctive. 



Cuhx ? aureopunctis, n. sp. (female). 



Head brown, covered with ochraceous curved and lateral flat scales, 

 many dark brown fork scales, a line of yellow scales around the eyes, a 

 couple of yellow bristles between the eyes and many brown ones pro- 

 jecting forward around the eyes The head does not seem at all denuded, 

 nevertheless there is a bare median V-shaped space, the base at the 

 vertex. Antennae dark brown, while banded at the joints, verticels and 

 pubescence dark brown, basal joint brown ; palpi dark brown with some 

 pale scales; proboscis apparently has the apical third partly denuded, but 

 the remaining scales show dark brown with a deep ochraceous band near 

 the apical third especially well marked on the ventral side, labellse dark ; 

 eyes brown with red-gold reflections ; clypeus brown. 



Thorax dark brown ; prothoracic lobes with light ochraceous scales 

 and brown bristles ; mesonotum covered with dark brown curved scales 

 and a few golden yellow ones which make a broken line from the wing 

 joints to the prothoracic lobes at the junction of mesonotum and pleura, 

 and a faint line on either side of the ''bare space'' running ccphalad 



