igio.] F. \'. Theobald : Report on CiiUcidce. 29 



front, prothoracic lobes densely clothed with white spiiidle-shaped 

 scales; scutellum brown with brown flat scales, those at the sides 

 with pale ochreous reflections : pleurae black with flat white scales. 



Abdomen narrow, clothed with deep blackish brown scales 

 with violet reflections and with white scales laterally and 

 ventrally. 



Legs deep brown with violet reflections, unhanded, coxae pale 

 with white scales ; venter of femora white ; fore and mid ungues 

 unequal; simple; hind equal and simple. 



Wings with short fork-cells: the first very little longer, but 

 narrower than the second, its base nearer the apex of the wing, 

 its stem more than two- thirds the length of the cell, stem of the 

 second posterior two-thirds the length of the cell ; posterior cross- 

 vein as long as the mid and more than its own length distant 

 from it. 



Length 5 mm. 



Habitat w. slopes of Dawna Hills, L. Buima, 2,000 — 3,000 

 feet (Annandale). 



Time of capture 2 or 3-iii-o8. 



Observations. — Described from a single cf . It is a verv marked 

 ^dine at once told by the densel}' long-scaled ch'peus. 



58. Orthopodomyia maculata, sp. nov. 



Thorax rich brown, ornamented with golden and creamy 

 scales; head with pale creamy scales ; proboscis with one small 

 median white band ; palpi of male about three- fourths the length 

 of the proboscis, white at base and apex and with two median 

 white bands. Abdomen black with basal white bands and two 

 median white spots to some segments. Wings with dark scales 

 and white spots. Fore and mid legs unhanded, hind with promi- 

 nent white bands and last segment all white. 



cr . Head brown with narrow-curved and upright forked 

 scales of a pale cream}^ to almost white hue, the fork scales 

 numerous and uniformly scattered over the head; antemue with 

 pale creamy and brown bands, plume hairs brown to flaxen, basal 

 segment black with small broad creamy scales dotted over it ; the 

 first few segments of the flagellum with long white and cream\- 

 scales; palpi black, white-scaled at the apex, a few white scales at 

 the base and two median w^hite bands, one near the apex, golden 

 chaetae at the apex, about three-fourths the length of the proboscis, 

 the latter black with one median narrow white band! 



Thorax black, clothed with large narrow-curved creamy scales, 

 the majorit}' golden, but some white ones in front, at the sides 

 and over the roots of the wings and before the scutellum and some 

 areas of dark bronzj' ones; chaetae long, golden and brown; scutel- 

 lum black with long silvery white scales and long golden border 

 bristles; metanotum black; i)leura,' brown with patches of flat 

 white scales and some long thin ones beneath the wings; pro- 

 thoracic lobes with flat white scales. 



