NEW CEYLON DIPTERA. 389 
inferior one pair, strong. Occipital row present. Central 
area of frons below ocellar triangle with many short bristles 
(generic character). 
Thorax brownish-gray, thickly covered with short black 
bristles (generic character). A median and dorso-central 
dark bars, varying in intensity in various specimens, from 
anterior margin to level of wing roots. Scutellum con- 
colorous bare. Pleurz silvery. Dorso-central bristles, two 
pairs on hind margin, the anterior weak, posterior long and 
strong. Prescutellars shorter than the posterior dorso- 
centrals. Anterior to prescutellars a pair of the short 
thoracic bristles are almost sufficiently strong to be differen- 
tiated as macrochete. Humeral and both notopleurals 
strong, supra-alar two, sternopleurals strong, two. Remaining 
bristles absent. Scutellum with four strong bristles, the apical 
pair crossed. All bristies black, and more strongly developed 
in the female. 
Abdomen.—First two segments yellowish-white, the central 
and anterior marginal areas of the second more or less brown. 
Remaining segments very dark brown, the hind margin of the 
third (and in the female of fourth and fifth) narrowly edged 
pale. The whole with short dark bristles, more numerous | 
posteriorly. Male genitalia concealed, in one specimen a pair 
of small black-tipped thorn-like processes are visible. 
Legs.—Entirely yellow, with fine black sete. Fore tarsi of 
male not dilated. 
Wings——Unmarked, veins yellow, venation normal. 
Halteres pale yellow. 
Long : 14-2.mm. 
Described from four males and one female. One male 
(type) in fair condition from Narangalla estate, Badulla 
district, Ceylon, November 28, 1919 (F. P. Jepson) ; the 
others in poor condition from Hunasgiriya Group, Wattegama 
district, Ceylon, March, 1920 (F. P. Jepson). The female 
(type), from Diyaluma estate, Koslanda district, Ceylon, 
June 10, 1915 (EK. R. Speyer). The female in good condition, 
but gummed on card. 
Type male in my own collection. Type female in collection 
Department of Agriculture, Peradeniya, No. 5,091 B. 
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