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Discussion. — The male genitalia of jasciscutata are similar to those 

 of miripes, new species, with important but specific differences in 

 each part; otherwise this species is distinct in its fasciate scutum, 

 pale whitish halteres, and conspicuously hairy tergum I. 



14. Stilobeszia (Neostilobezzia) fortistyla Das Gupta and Wirth, new species 



Figure 54 



Female. — Unknown. 

 Male. — Length of wing 1.40 mm. 



A large, robust, uniformly yellowish brown species with strong 

 bristly hairs; legs and abdomen uniformly pale yellowish; wing and 



Figure 54. — Stilobezzia fortistyla, new species (d"). a, wing; b, abdominal terga I-IV; 



c-e, cf genitalia. 



halter yellowish, veins slightly brownish. Vertex with 13 hairs; an- 

 tennal plumes brownish, distal antennomere tipped by a stiff hair; 

 palpal segment III long and slender, length subequal to V, with a 

 small subapical pit with small sensilla. Scutum with strong bristly 

 brownish hairs; scutellum with 4 large bristles and 0-2 smaller hairs. 

 Legs robust; femora and tibiae with strong bristly hairs arranged in 

 definite series, hind tibia with 11 long extensor bristles; claws strong 

 and curved, equal, with bifid tips; tarsomeres I— III with strong 

 ventral spines as: fore leg 0-0-1, 0-0-1, 0-0-1; mid leg 1-0-2, 0-0-2, 

 0-0-2; hind leg 0-0-2, 0-0-2, 0-0-2; TR 2.27; hind tibial comb with 

 7 spines. Wing (fig. 54a) with macrotrichia along margin between 



