296 p. Speiser : Three neiv Nycteribiidse. [Vol. I, 1907.] 



on each side at the end. The plate above the genital opening 

 bears a group of three bristles on the side lobes, and a single one 

 a short distance before these. lyong. corp. 2*3 — 2*4 mm. 



Basilia bathybothyra, sp. nov., <f . 



Calcutta, 6th April 1905.' Head without characteristics. 

 The thorax has conspicuous deep grooves above the halteres ; the 

 breastplate is somewhat broader than long. The second tergite 

 has a broad middle lobe slightly produced backwards. All the 

 tergites bear on the hind margins, scattered rows of thin, moder- 

 ately long bristles ; on the fourth, fifth and sixth tergite groups of 

 bristles of double length occur which beset the margin a short 

 distance each side from the middle. The basal sternite is large 

 and long, its ctenidium having short, thin teeth;' the succeeding 

 sternites are very short, except the fourth and fifth which are 

 slightly longer. The hind margins of these are slightly wavy in 

 the middle, and bear there a little group of very short, black 

 spines, or spine-like knobs. The following ones are thin, slightly 

 curved, beset with bristles. 



Cyclopodia amiculata, sp. nov., 9 , 



Calcutta, on Taphozous longimanus. This is the most slender 

 Cyclopodia I have seen, its length being 2"i mm. ; the single legs 

 3 mm. : the latter are thin, especially the femora, by which this 

 species differs from the two other Cyclopodics. The abdomen is 

 very singularly shaj^ed. Besides a basal tergite, it shows but two 

 broad and long tergites, and an anal segment. The posterior 

 tergite bears on its anterior half a pair of very pistilliform styles, 

 with bristly tips, as in the 9 of Nyct. (Stylidia) biarticulata , Herm. 

 The hind margin has, in the middle, a deep triangular notch, on 

 the inner margins of which are a few bristles. The basal sternite 

 bears a very dense linear ctenidium of fine spines ; the ends of all 

 the following segments are well marked by rows of bristles, the 

 remaining surface (except in the second sternite) being bare 



I [On Vespertilio muricola.-^^D.] 



