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the tip rather expanded with a deep V-shaped incision, the lobes 

 rounded. Pleurites long, cylindrical, not very convex on outer 

 face; three apical appendages, the more dorsal being somewhat 

 fleshy, brown, elongate-cylindrical, narrowed basally, provided 

 with long hairs, and, at its tip, with a slender hook directed cepha- 

 lad; the median apical appendage is longest, chitinized,very strong- 

 ly so at its tip; tip broadly expanded and concave, this concavity 

 provided with minute denticulse; the ventral apical appendage is 

 shorter than the median one, fleshy, cylindrical, narrowed at base. 

 Viewed from beneath, the 9th sternite is straight on its caudal 

 margin, pleurites very broad at base, produced entad and almost 

 meeting en the median line on the sternun;; second gonapophyses 

 long, slender, acicular, the tips barely projecting beyond the caudal 

 level of the 9th sternite. 



Female. — Similar, but averages larger in size. 



Vial No. 1.— Tokio, Japan; 2 o", 2 9 • 



Vial' No. 16. — Tokio, Japan; 2 9 (small, but apparently of 

 the same species.) 



Holotype. — cf . Vial No. 1, I. 



Allotype.— 9. Vial No. I. 



Paratypes. — 1 d^, 3 9 , Vials I and 16. 



Types in author's collection. 



E. elegantula difters from E. javensis Meij. (Tijd voor Ento- 

 mol., vol. 44, p. 45, 46, fig. 28, 1911) and E. notata Meij. (I.e., p. 46, 

 figs. 29-31) in its spotted wings. 



Genus Molophilus Curtis. 

 Molophilus pegasus, sp. n. 



Antennae of the male short; color of body brown. 



Male. — Length, 4.2 mm.; wing, 4.3 mm. 

 • Female. — Length, 4.9 mm.; wing, 5.1 mm. 



Male. — Rostrum and palpi dark brown; antennae light yellow, 

 the flagellar segments with the exception of the first, a little more 

 brownish; antennae short, extending about to the base of the wings, 

 segments of flagellum cylindrical; front, vertex and occiput brown. 



Pronotum above, light yellow, darker on the sides. Meso- 

 notal praescutum reddish-brown, with a broad, dark brown median 

 stripe, and less distinct but broader lateral stripes, which begin 



