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each, rest of flagellnra with very short hairs ; proboscis black, as long 

 as front femur, nearly as long as whole body. 



Thorax greyish-brown, metanotum darker with a little grey dust. 



Abdomen light brown, hinder half of segments distinctly darker ; 

 ovipositor large, basal part dull yellowish ; valves long, shining brown. 



Legs dull brown, femora subapically a little blackish ; extreme tips 

 pale ; tarsi black. 



Fig. 3. — Wing of Conithorax latifrons. 



Wings clear grey ; halteres yellowish. 



Described from a unique $ in the Indian Museum from Bidai, Selang- 

 or-Pahang Boundary, Malay States, April 1917 (C. Boden Kloss). 



Conithorax brevifrons, sp. nov. 

 $. Assam. Long. 5 mm. 



Head ash grey. Frons only one-eighth width of head, sides very 

 convex ; eyes separated below by one-fifth width of head. Proboscis, 

 palpi and antennae black or blackish-brown ; 1st scapal joint yellowish. 



Thorax and abdomen dark brown ; pleurae and genitalia brownish- 

 yellow. Legs dark brown, under side of femora a little paler. Wings 

 with 2nd longitudinal vein a little less erect than in latifrons, ending 

 more distally than anterior cross vein. In latifrons it ends before the 

 cross vein. Posterior cross vein just beyond base of discal cell instead of 

 just before it as in latifrons. 



Described from a unique $ from above Tura, Garo Hills, Assam, 

 3,500—3,900 ft., viii-17 {Kemp). Type in Indian Museum. 



ELEPHANTOMYIA, Os. Sac. 



iuscomarginata, Ender., Zool. Jahr. XXXII, p. 64 J (1912). 



Sumatra. Unique type in Stettin Zoological Museum, 

 egregia, de Meij., Tijd. v. Ent, LVI, p. 347 ^ (1913). Java. 

 Unique type in Amsterdam Museum. 

 In both the above species the wings are figured as decidedly more 

 cuneiform than in Osten Sacken's E. westwoodi, and the 3rd vein is in a 

 line with the praefurca, the 2nd vein appearing to emerge from it at a 

 considerable angle ; the auxiliary vein being shewn distinctly in fusco- 

 marginata but not in egregia. 



TOXORHINA, Loew.i 



Genotype : T. longirostris, Loew (fossil) by present designation. 



The question as to which of two groups of species this name should 

 apply dates back to 1868, originating with Schiner's objection to Osten 

 Sacken's application of the name. 



^ Spelt thus by Loew and Scudder. Osten Sacken and Kertcsz emend to Toxor- 

 rhina, but Bergroth, the latest authority, reverts to the original spelling. 



