GENUS OF SHORT-BEAKED GNATS. 189 
The wing-margin (except the anterior proximal part) and the 
distal half of all the longitudinal veins are clothed with true scales, 
the proximal half of some of the longitudinal as well as the whole of 
the cross-veins bearing flattened hairs. 
There are no scales on the head, body, or legs. 
The eyes of the male as seen from the side consist of a transverse 
basal and a narrow vertical portion. The proboscis is short and 
feeble, much shorter than the palpi, which consist of four joints. 
The antennz have fifteen joints, of which the first is minute, the 
second large and globular, and the remaining thirteen (the flagellum) 
almost cylindrical, but tapering slightly at the distal end, verticillate, 
and clothed with fine hairs. 
The legs are moderately slender. They are clothed with stiff 
hairs and have simple, smooth-edged claws. ‘The first tarsal joint 
is longer than the two succeeding joints together. The claws are 
smooth-edged and simple. 
The male claspers are of simple structure. 
The venation of this genus approaches that of the Psychodide as 
regards the position of the tip of the first longitudinal vein, but is 
of a less simple character. 
Ramcia inepta, sp. nov. 
The abdomen is dark in colour, the thorax paler but probably 
reticulated or mottled with some dark shade. The wings are pale, 
except for an interrupted dark crossbar which embraces the extre- 
mities of the subcostal and first longitudinal veins, includes the 
petioles of the first submarginal and the second posterior cells, and 
appears in the form of spots on the costal and posterior wing-fringes, 
the anterior branch of the fifth and the distal end of the sixth 
longitudinal vein, completely omitting the third longitudinal and 
the main stem of the fifth. The spot on the posterior margin is 
considerably in advance both of that on the anterior margin and 
of that on the sixth vein. The tips of all the tibize and the three 
distal joints of the tarsi of the first and second legs are dark. 
The subcostal reaches the costal margin a little in front of the 
middle of the wing, and the tip of the first longitudinal is not much 
in advance of it. The second longitudinal vein is angulate at its 
junction with the third, and its fork is a little in advance of that 
of the fourth. The anterior cross-vein is extremely short. The 
anterior branch of the fifth longitudinal arises only a short distance 
behind the posterior cross-vein. There are no longitudinal in- 
crassations or false veins, and the seventh longitudinal is entirely 
absent. 
The wing is moderately narrow, bluntly rounded at the tip, its 
anterior border being nearly straight and its posterior border 
regularly and not very strongly curved. 
