igii.] E. Brunetti : New Oriental Nemocera. 315 



Genitalia large and distinct, very pubescent. 



Wings (rather rubbed) with hairs on surface only; light brown 

 or greyish, with small patches of light erect hairs irregularly dis- 

 posed The 2nd longitudinal vein forks distinctly distad of the 

 base of the 3rd vein ; the anterior branch forking a little beyond 

 the fork of the 4th vein, both very near the middle of the wing. 

 Venation PsychodaAWie. 



Described irom 2l <,mg\Q cf in the Indian Museum, taken by 

 Dr. Annandale at Maddathorai, Travancore State, South India, 

 iy-x.i-08. 



N.B. — Referred doubtfully and provisionally to the present 

 genus. There being no hairs on the surface of the wings and 

 no scales, it is questionable whether a new genus should not be 

 erected for it. The species, however, is quite a good one. 



BLEPHA ROCERIDAE. 

 Apistomyia trilineata, mihi, sp. nov. 



cf . Darjiling district. Long. 4 mm. 



Head. — Eyes closely, microscopically pubescent, upper facets 

 very distinctly larger than lower ones, divided by a distinct 

 narrow space, the upper ones being about one-fourth the total 

 height of the eyes. Frons one-third the width of the head, bare, 

 the eye-orbits narrowly silvery ; ocellar triangle distinct, elevated 

 the three ocelH conspicuous, reddish brown. Face whitish grey, 

 with silver}' reflections. Antennae black, bare ; ist scapal joint 

 much broader at tip than at base, 2nd joint twice as long as the 

 1st, much broadened at tip, where it is produced on the under 

 side into an elongate blunt point. Flagellum of 8 joints, the ist 

 barely half as long as the 2nd scapal joint, the following joints of 

 thickened bead shape, the apical joint ovate. 



The proboscis consists of a long elongo-conical rostrum, 

 moderately stout at the base, whitish in colour, with blackish 

 dorsum, thence produced into a tapering, very sharply pointed 

 brownish yellow horny piece quite separate from the proboscis 

 proper, which is very long, black, narrowly cylindrical, genicu- 

 lated before the middle, beyond which it is bilobed, the ends 

 curled up. 



Thorax ash-grey, the central part of the dorsum up to 

 beyond the middle occupied by three broad velvet-black stripes 

 almost contiguous, extending laterally almost to the sides; the 

 median stripe produced forwards to the anterior margin, which 

 is wholly black to the shoulders, leaving a narrow grey space in 

 front. Pleurae, scutellum and metanotum blackish. 



Ahdouien velvet-black, the anterior corners of most of the 

 segments a little reddish brown with more or less silvery reflec- 

 tions. Belly reddish brown. Genitalia moderately small, oval, 

 blackish, not conspicuous. 



