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the thyridium; venation very similar to D. nervosa, tlie inner spur of hind 

 tibia is very long, more than one half as long as hind tibia, more than twice as 

 long as the outer spur, the tip is enlarged foot-like, the edge with fine erect 

 hair, the claw bent around one end. The male genitalia show a rounded lobe 

 each side. 



Expanse 35 mm. 



GUNUNGIELLA NIETNERI, .Sp. nOV. 



Type.— M. C. Z. 10,917. Ceylon (Nietner, Hagen coll.). 



Head and thorax yellowish, with some golden and some brownish hair; 

 maxillary palpi dark, very long as in G. reducta. Antennae wholly pale; head 

 high above eyes, the posterior warts large, yellow. Abdomen dark brown; 

 legs yellowish brown, the hind tibiae with a fringe of long hair on the outer side. 

 Wings brown, the fore wings with fine mostly golden hair, and brown fringe, a 

 whitish hyaline dot on thyridium, on anastomosis and transverse line over 

 anastomosis; hind wings darker than fore wings,«with mostly black fringe. 

 Venation similar to G. reduda, but in the fore wing the fifth fork is nuich 

 broader, each side more rounded, and in the hind wings the second fork is 

 almost twice as long as in that species, and the fifth fork is very broad as in the 

 fore wings. 



Expanse 10 mm. 



RHYACOPHILIDAE. 



Apsilochorema diffinis, sp. nov. 



Type.— M. C. Z. 10,918. Ceylon (Nietner, Hagen coll.). 



Brown, clothed with yellowish and brown hair, that on head and thorax 

 mostly yellow; palpi brown; antennae pale on base, gradually darker beyond; 

 legs yellowish brown, the tibia paler at insertion of spurs; fore wings with 

 erect brown and yellow hair, mostly brown, two streaks of black hair near 

 middle, in apical part with appressed brown and pale yellowish hair; fringe 

 brown, darkest at apex; hind wings gray, fringe and veins brown. Venation 

 in general similar to A. imlicmn, but the false cell near the middle of wing has 

 the outer side much more oblique, third fork shorter; in the hind wings the 

 third fork is much shorter than the second. In the male genitalia the lower 

 appendages are widest near the middle, and seen from above have a large, 

 curved tooth toward inner tip. 



Expanse 12 to 14 mm. 



