GENUS .EDOMYIA 479 



scales ; palpi dark with ill-marked white banding, of the ? , white at 

 the apex; antennae nearly black, the last two jomts being much thick- 

 ened, and olive-shaped in the $ . Scutellum whitish in the middle, with 

 a tuft of black scales on each side. Pleurae dark brown, with whitish 

 patches. Venter yellowish at the base, black with basal white patches 

 behind. Length. — About 4 mm. 



Habitat. — West Indies, South America, India, Straits Settlements. 

 Enters houses and bites, but not severely. 



2. ^DOMYIA YENUSTIPES, Skuse. 



^des Venustipes, Skuse (" S. A. C," p. 1761.) 



Wings with all the veins densely clothed with mixed brown 

 and yellow scales, the former preponderating, but unspotted. 

 (Scales described as " somewhat broad, more or less elliptical.") 



Fig. 47. —The wing of JEclomyia venustipes. 



Legs elaborately banded dark brown and white, the hind legs 

 with all the two last tarsals white except the apex of the fifth 

 joint, other joints with broad basal white bands. Thorax clothed 

 with mixed brown and yellow scales, with apical and lateral 

 yellow patches. Abdomen densely clothed with mixed brown 

 and white scales, the latter preponderating on the sides and 

 beneath. Proboscis deep brown with subapical and median white 

 bands. There is no mention of any femoral tufts. Pleurae deep 

 brown with white patches, scutellum with yellowish-brown 

 scales. Length 3'81 mm. 



Habitat. — Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, Australia. 



Note. — Nothing eorrespondmg to Skuse's description has come to 

 hand from Australia, but the circumstance of Skuse describing it as 

 yEdes, together with the form of the wing scales, makes it probable that 

 it belongs to this genus. As, however, he describes from a single female 

 specimen, it is possible it may be a Panojdites. Its close general 

 resemblance to the preceding species, however, makes this unlikely. 



