126 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Length, excl. tegm., 15 mm. ; exp. tegm., 42 mm. 



Hah. — British Guiana (Cattle Trail Survey), A. A. Abraham. 



Allied to E.fuscata, Dist., from Costa Rica. 



Abrahameria, gen. nov. 



Vertex of head broader than long, the lateral and anterior margins 

 distinctly, somewhat broadly carinate, the disc thus moderately 

 foveate ; pronotum much broader centrally than at lateral angles, 

 laterally concavely sinuate, the lateral angles broadly, obtusely 

 angulate, convexly produced between eyes, the posterior margin 

 moderately concave ; face about as broad as long, strongly longi- 

 tudinally carinate ; scutellum strongly carinate ; abdomen broad, 

 moderately compressed, about as long in male as head, pronotum 

 and scutellum together; posterior tibiae thickly finely spinose. 

 Tegmina long and slender, about three times as long as broad ; wings 

 about twice as long as broad, their apices subangulate. Eostrum 

 about or almost reaching the apical abdominal segment, its second 

 joint very long and sulcated ; femora and tibiae strongly sulcata 

 beneath. 



The position of this genus in the Fulgoridje, Div. Aphanaria, 

 is somewhat at present indeterminate. 



Abrahameria typica, sp. n. 



Head above pale slatey blue, the apical and lateral margins 

 virescent ; eyes ochraceous ; pronotum brownish, the margins and 

 a central longitudinal carination virescent; scutellum brownish, 

 speckled with ochraceous, a central longitudinal carination and much 

 waved lateral carinations yellow ; three small spots on anterior 

 margin, and four unequal spots on lateral areas, black; abiomen 

 above ochraceous, the segmental margins black ; body beneath and 

 legs ochraceous, anterior femora and tibiae darker beneath ; rostrum 

 ochraceous, almost reaching the apical abdominal segment ; tegmina 

 reddish-brown, some spots on costal margin, ochraceous, the apical 

 area spotted with greyish-white, and with an undulating black line 

 extending from base to apex and a more fractured and slender black 

 line near anterior margin; wings carmine-red, the veins and broad 

 apical area black, the latter containing two small pale spots near 

 apex. 



Length, excl. tegm., 19 mm. ; exp. tegm., 68 mm. 



Hab. — British Guiana (Cattle Trail Survey), Takama Ck. N. 

 Berbice, A. A. Abraham. 



" COLLECTING FUNGUS-GNATS " : REMARKS ON 

 MR. C. MORLEY'S PAPER. 



By F. W. Edwards. 

 Mr. Claude Morley's paper in last month's ' Entomologist ' 

 seems to call for two or three comments, which I hereby make in 

 the hope of adding to the inducements offered by Mr. Morley's 



