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of M pale; veins brown; wings broad, densely covered with hairs. 

 Venation: Cell 1st Ah small, closed; basal deflection of Cui slightly 

 before the fork of M; anal veins strongly divergent. 



Abdomen black. Hypopygium of the general structure of the 

 nigripila group of the genus; pleurites stout, one pleural appendage 

 much longer than the others, dusky in color, tapering gradually to the 

 acute tip; the second appendage is shorter, flattened, subhyaline. The 

 gonapophyses are flattened blades, deeply bifid apicaliy with the 

 proximal arm about twice the length of the outer arm. 



Habitat: Japan. 



Holotype, cf, Meguro, Tokio, March 31, 1919 (R. Taka- 

 hashi) . 



Paratopotypes, 1 &, March 26; 2cr's, April 16, 1919. 



Ormosia atripes sp. n. 



Belongs to the nigripila group; general coloration black, including 

 the legs; wings grayish brown; anal veins divergent. 



Female — Length 5-5.3 mm.; wing, 5.8-5.9 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brownish black. Antennas with the first 

 scapal segment brown, second segment large, broadly pyrifonn, light 

 yellow ; flagellum dark brownish black, the segments oval (in the female 

 sex). Head dark. 



Sides of the pronotal scutellum yellowish white. Mesothorax 

 blackish with a sparse dull yellowish brown pollen; scutellum with long 

 coarse yellow bristles. Pleura black, a sparse group of from six to eight 

 long erect yellowish hairs between the bases of the wings and halteres. 

 Halteres light yellow. Legs with the coxse bro^vnish black; trochanters 

 yellowish broAvn, brighter basally; femora dark brownish black, paler 

 basally; remainder of the legs brownish black. Wings wnth a dark 

 grayish brown suffusion, brighter basally and in the costal region; 

 stigma indistinct, brown; a faint whitish spot beyond the stigma and 

 a larger, somewhat more distinct, one at the fork of M; veins dark bro\^Ti, 

 R and Cu yellowish; wings broad with a dense delicate pubescence. 

 Venation: r just beyond the fork of i?2+3 on R->\ cell 1st M'> small, closed, 

 the inner end narrowed, the outer deflection of Ms a little longer than m; 

 basal deflection of Cui at or slightly before the fork of M; anal veins 

 strongly divergent. 



Abdomen black; tergal valves of the ovipositor strongly curved, 

 black basally, dark horn \'ellow apicaliy; sternal valves dark, the tips 

 acute. 



Habitat: Japan. 



Holotype, 9 , Meguro, Tokio, April 10, 1919 (R. Takahashi). 



Paratopotypes, 7 9 's, April 9-25, 1919. 



