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Genus Myiodactylus Brauer (1866). 
Brauer, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, XVI, p. 991 (1866). 
Wings, especially the forewings, very broad and short. The 
cubiti and postcosta parallel, the former united before the 
border. Antennae not so long as the half of the forewings, 
moniliform, each joint with a ring of distinct bristles. 
Legs short, with short tarsi, no tibial spurs developed. 
Claws rather long, the areolum bifid and each branch as 
long as the claw and parallel with it. 
Habitat: Australia and New Guinea. 
In Insulinde this curious synthetic genus is represented by: 
Myiodactylus nebulosus Mac Lachlan. 
(Plate 4, fig. 15, (7). 
Myjiodactylus nebulosus Mac Lachlan, Ent. month]. Mag. XIV, 
p. 85 (1878). New Guinea. 
Antennae brown above, yellow beneath, moniliform, 
with erected short brown bristles. Head elongate triangular, 
yellow, tips of mandibles black. Occiput and vertex blackish 
brown in the middle. Eyes goldgreen. Prothorax very 
narrow and elongate, with a dark claret coloured stripe in 
the middle. Meso- and metathorax robust, yellowish, dark 
in the middle. Breast pale yellow with whitish hairs. 
Legs stout and rather short, yellowish white, with long 
pale hairs. 
Abdomen yellowish, dorsum with a black median stripe 
consisting of a series of dark triangles. 
_Gonopoda yellow. The app. sup. of the male broad and 
angulated at the tip, the genitalvalve short and semicircular. 
Wings short and broad, hyaline, with rounded tips. Nerva- 
ture mostly yellow, excepted the crossveins, which are 
suffused with fuscous. Pterostigma deep black, triangular, 
broadly connected with the foreborder. Costalfield broad 
in both wings, in the hindwings with simple veins, in the 
forewings many of them are forked. These furcations are 
spotted with fuscous, so that there seem to be two alternating 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XX XI, 
