t'RED. V. THEOBALlì M. A., CÜLICIDAE RTC. 239 



18. Ckrt/socoNops fiit<copteron nov. sp. 



Head, thorax and abdomen clean deep golden yellow ; jjalpi 

 and proboscis brown; legs unbanded, dark, with violet and dull 

 ochi*eo\is reflections; wing-s nniforralv dusky-brown scaled. 



J. Head pale ochreous Ijrown, clothed with narrow-curved 

 golden yellow scales, deep golden upright forked scales and similar 

 colored chaetae ; clypeus deep ochreous, dark at the base; 

 proboscis dark with violet reflections ; palpi ochreous, clothed 

 with dark scales with metallic violet reflections and thin black 

 chaetae, some long towards the base; antennae ochreous brown 

 with narrow pallid internodes and dark chaetae, pale pubescence 

 and darker basal segment. Eyes large, dark. 



Thorax shiny ochreous brown, clothed with scanty golden- 

 yellow narrow-curved scales, black chaetae, except over the 

 base of the wings where they are golden, darkened at the 

 apices; scutellum paler than the mesothorax with similar 

 scales and bright golden yellow chaetae ; metanotum bright 

 golden yellow ; pleurae golden yellow, with some pale silvery 

 flat scales. 



Abdomen clothed with bright golden yellow scales, the 

 apical borders of the segments with pale dusky violet scales ; 

 chaetae golden and l)rown, those towards the apex long, apical 

 segment with dense brown chaetae. 



Wings clothed with dusky brown scales ; the fork-cells 

 short, nearly equal in length, their bases nearly level, the 

 posterior if anything slightly the nearer the base of the wing; 

 the first submarginal slightly the narrower ; its stem about 

 as long as the cell ; stem of the second posterior cell not 

 quite as long as the cell ; posterior cross-vein a little longer 

 tlian the mid, not quite twice its own length distant from it ; 

 the su])ernumerary also longer than the mid. Haltères pale 

 ochreous with fuscous knob. 



Length 3.8 mm. 



