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quite noticeably thickened ; anterior and middle tibiae very weakly ciliate ; posterior 

 ones with about 12 unusually strong setuLie. Legs pale, the tips of the hind femora 

 infuscated. Wings (Fig. l) hyaline, with yellowish veins; costal vein reaching fully 

 to the middle of the wing or slightly beyond, with closely-set, short, fine cilia; 

 auxiliary vein very indistinct ; first vein ending a little nearer the tip of the third than 

 the humeral cross-vein ; third vein acutely forked, but very near to the tip so that the 

 cell thus formed is small ; fourth vein but little curved ; fifth weakly bent towards the 

 middle ; sixth slightly bisinuate ; seventh faint. Halteres pale. 



Numerous specimens of both sexes from Manila, Philippine 

 Islands, "found breeding in culture media in Bureau of Science." 

 They were collected by Dr. C. S. Banks. 



Aphiochaeta curtineura, new species. 



Length 2.5-4 mm. Brownish testaceous, more or less of the front and abdomen 

 above infuscated. Head comparatively flat antero-posteriorly. Front about as wide 

 as high, with ocellar tubercle and median frontal groove ; brownish or quite dark, its 

 bristles stout. Four proclinate setse, all of them very stout ; the lower pair as strong 

 as the upper. Lower lateral angles each with a pair, the median one of which is dis- 

 tinctly lower than the upper proclinate seta. Middle frontal row nearly straight, 

 slightly bowed downward. Ocellar row as usual. Cheeks each with two stout 

 macrochretce at the lower angle, above which are a series of very small ones anteri- 

 orly. Postocular cilia stout. Antenna? nearly spherical, with a short, very slightly 

 pubescent arista. Palpi small, but with very stout macrochaetae. Proboscis short and 

 fleshy. Thorax thinly hairy, testaceous, with one pair of dorsocentral macrochaetae 

 and only one pair of strong scutellar bristles. Mesopleural bristles five, of moderate 

 size. Abdomen testaceous, with distinct brownish bands which are nearly contiguous 

 in fully colored specimens. Sides dark above and apically, venter very pale. Legs 

 testaceous, stout, the hind femora considerably swollen and weakly ciliate near the 

 tip below ; darkened at the apex. Hind tibiae strongly setulose, the setulce about 12 

 ^^ in number, about two thirds as long as the di- 

 _ ' ^'^ ^-^ ^ •^ ameter of the tibia at their insertions. Wings 



(Fig. 2) hyaline, elongate, the veins pale brown ; 



costal veins scarcely over one third the length of 



the wing, its cilia rather short and closely placed ; 



first, second and third veins entering the costa very 

 P"iG. 2. — Aphiocluila curlineitrd , close together, the cell at the furcation of the third 

 n. sp. Wing. extremely small, though always distinct ; third 



vein at the tip somewhat swollen ; fourth vein very 

 faintly curved, ending as near the wing tip as the fifth, which is also nearly straight ; 

 sixth very weakly sinuate ; seventh fine but distinct. Halteres pale. 



Described from several specimens of both sexes included in the 

 same vial with the preceding species, from which it differs by its very 

 short costal vein, different chretotaxy of front and scutellum. 



