BY ARTHUR WHITS. 239 



a few longer lateral, bristles; scutellum with four black 

 marginal bristles. Abdomen grey, with white lateral pub- 

 escence ; genitalia rising considerably above the level of 

 the abdomen. Legs black, femora and tibiae with short 

 bristles. Wings hyaline, with pale yellow-brown veins, 

 and a distinct stigma ; cubital vein simple ; discal cell 

 with three complete issuing veinlets, which leave it almost 

 m a line, at a nearly ec^ual distance from the base of wing, 

 thei end of the discal cell being almost rectangular; anal 

 vein very short, hardly extending beyond the anal cell. 



Of this species I came across several specimens dancing 

 in the air, near a small stream at Mangalore, on April 

 19, 1914, but have not met with it on any other occasion; 

 it is evidently a late autumn species, and from its small 

 size is liable to be overlooked. 



Khamphomyia septembris, Sp. nov. 



Thorax and abdomen grey ; legs brown ; wings with a 

 faint stigma ; the lowest veinlet issuing from the discal 

 cell does so much nearer the base of wing than the two 

 upper ones, the discal cell being drawn out above into a 

 long pointy spring species. 



Length. Female, 3 mm. 

 Hab. Mangalore. 



Fenntlr. Face and front brown. Proboscis long, in 

 length nearly twice the height of head. Pali^i not dis- 

 tinguishable. Antennae black, abo'ut the length of head, 

 the first and second joints short, the third rather more 

 than twice as long as the first two together, and ter- 

 minated by a style which is nearly half its length. Thorax 

 grey, dorsum nearly bare, but with long lateral bristles ; 

 scutellum with four long black, almost upright, bristles. 

 Abdomen grey, nearly bare, but with a little whitish 

 lateral pubescence. Legs dark brown, with the knees very 

 narrowly yellow, all joints bearing very small bristles. 

 Wings hyaline, with dark brown veins, and a faint brown 

 stigma; discal cell drawn O'ut into a long point above, 

 so that the lowest issuing veinlet does so much nearer 

 the base of wing than the two upper ones; anal vein con- 

 tinued well beyond the anal cell, but becoming obsolet«i 

 half-way to the wing-margin. 



This species bears a close resemblance to B. apriJis, but 

 is distinguished bv the different form of the discal cell, 

 by the longer proboscis, and by the darker veins of the 

 wings.; it is also a spring instead of aii autumn species, 



R. septembris seems to be rare, but may merely have 

 been overlooked. I have personally only come across a 



