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Abdomen subfvisiforme, apice attenuatum, tliorace pauI15 longius. JPedes 

 graciles. Alee longiusculfe, sat angustce, veiiis limbatis. 



Female. Bocty rather narrow, diill, pubescent. Head a little less broad than 

 the thorax ; epistoma not prominent. Proboscis and palpi short. An- 

 tennae not reaching the epistoma ; 3rd joint rather long, sublanceolate ; 

 arista plmnose. Abdomen subfosiform, somewhat attenuated at the tip, a 

 little longer than the thorax. Legs slender. Wings rather long and narrow ; 

 subcostal vein ending at before one-thu-d of the length of the wing ; media- 

 stinal ending at much beyond half the length ; radial ending at about seven- 

 eighths of the length ; cubital ending at very little in front of the tip ; discal 

 transverse vein straight, hardly obUque, parted by one-fourth of its length 

 from the border, and by very much more than its length from the prse- 

 bracliial transverse. 



This genus seems to be somewhat allied to the Selomyzides. 



113. SoPHlEA VENTTSTA, n. 8,, foem. Testacea, thoracis fasci4 metathorace ab- 

 dominisque fasciis tribus macuUsque duabus subapicahbus nigris, tibiis fus- 

 cescentibus, alls limpidis venis fusco-limbatis. 



Female. Testaceoiis. Thorax with a black band between the wings. Metathorax 

 black. Abdomen with three black bands, and with a black subapical spot on each 

 side. Tibioe brownish ; tarsi tawny. Wings limpid, lurid in front, striped with 

 brown along most of the vems ; vems black, tawny towards the base ; cubital 

 vein minutely setose towards the base. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the 

 wings 8 lines. 



Singapore. 



Gen. EioxA, u. g. {Plate II. fig. 3.) 



Foem. Corpus angustum, pubescens. Captd sat parvum, thorace multS angustius. 

 Antennarum articulus 3"' subhnearis ; arista raro plumosa. Thorax longi. 

 ovatus. Abdomen fusiforme, thorace multo angustius, vix longius. Pedes 

 graciles, antici breves. Aim longse, mediocriter latse, obscm'se, guttis albis. 



Female. Body narrow, dull, pubescent. Head rather small, much less broad 

 than the thorax ; epistoma not prominent. Proboscis and palpi short. An- 

 tennae not reacliing the epistoma ; 3rd jdint almost linear, moderately long ; 

 arista thinly plumose. Thorax elongate-oval. Abdomen fusiform, much nar- 

 rower, but hardly longer than the thorax. Legs slender ; fore legs short. Wings 

 long, moderately broad, dark with white dots ; radial vein ending at rather in 

 front of the tip of the whig ; discal transverse vein almost straight, very obhque, 

 parted by about one-fourth of its length from the border, and by somewhat 

 less than its length from the prabrachial transverse. 



114. RioXA LANCEOLATA, n. s., foem. Cervina, thorace nigro-quadi-ivittato, ab- 

 doimne nigi'o vitta dorsali cervma, pedibus testaceis, ahs uigricantibus striga 

 discali guttisque quinque albis. 



Female. Fawn-colom". Proboscis, legs and halteres testaceous. Thorax with two 

 blackish stripes on each side, the outer pair shortened hindward. Abdomen 

 black, with a fawn-coloured dorsal stripe which is attenuated hindward, and 

 does not extend to the tip. Wmgs blackish, ahnost limpid along the hind 

 border for more than half the length from the base, with a white discal streak 

 and with five white dots ; 1st dot in a luie with the streak ; 2nd very minute, 



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