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Sc and R, which are yellowish. Venation: r-m sometimes present, but 

 short, at other times obliterated by the punctiform contact or short 

 fusion of i?4+5 on M1+2; basal deflection of Cui before or slightly beyond 

 the fork of M. 



Abdomen shiny black throughout. 



In the female sex, the antennae are much shorter and less distinctly 

 serrated; only the second scapal segment is pale; the stigma and costal 

 region of the wing brownish yellow; the valves of the ovipositor short 

 and flattened, black, their tips rusty brown. 



Habitat: Japan. 



Holotype, d", Saitama, May 30, 1919 (R. Takahashi). 

 Allotopotype, 9 , May 29, 1919. 

 Paratopotypes, 2 d^'s, 2 9 's, May 29, 1919. 

 Liogma kuwanai is a gray fly with the stigma dark brown 

 and the femora brown with only the bases yellow. 



Phalacrocera Schiner. 



Phalacrocera mikado sp. n. , 



Antennae simple; mesonotum shiny black, the lateral margins of the 

 praescutum, the scutellum and the anterior half of the postnotum pale; 

 abdomen shiny black. 



Male — Length about 11 mm.; wing, 12.2 mm. 



Female — Length about 12 mm.; wing, 11.5-11.8 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae with sixteen segments, 

 simple in both sexes; in the male elongate-cylindrical, clothed with an 

 abundant white pubescence; antennae dark brown, the bases of the first 

 two flagellar segments more yellowish. Head with the vertex between 

 the eyes pale brown, the remainder shiny brownish black. Head 

 strongly narrowed behind. 



Mesonotal praescutum shiny black, the lateral margins and the 

 humeral regions pale; scutal lobes black; remainder of the dorsum pale 

 except the posterior portion of the postnotum, which is darkened. 

 Pleura pale, the mesopleura and stemopleura shiny black. Halteres 

 pale brown, the base of the stem paler. Legs with the coxae pale, the 

 outer faces more or less darkened, especially on the mesocoxae; trochan- 

 ters pale; femora pale, the tips dark brown; tibiae pale brownish white, 

 the tips dark; tarsi dark brown. Wings pale grayish, the stigma oval, 

 pale yellowish brown; veins brown. Venation: m and r-m present, 

 long; in the allotype the tip of vein i?2 is indistinctly persistent in both 

 wings, but in the other specimens there is no trace of this vein. 



Abdomen shiny black; hypopygium small. 



Habitat: Japan. 



Holotype, d^, Tokio, April, 1919, (R. Takahashi). 



Allotopotype, 9 . 



Paratype, 9 , Saitama, May 29, 1919, (R. Takahashi). 



