84 MYCETOPHILIByE. 



39. G-noriste spathulata, sp. uov. (PL III, fig. 8.) 



J . Head : vertex and irons black, a little shiuiug, with a few 

 stifl: hairs. The ocelli very distinct, reddish brown, the outer ones 

 large, the middle one only a little smaller and barely lower on the 

 frons. Proboscis one-and-a-half times the height of the head, 

 brownish yellow, with long broad labella, giving a broad spatulate 

 appearance to the tip of the proboscis. Palpi pale yellow, long. 

 Antennal scape and first two or three flagellar joints yellow, the 

 remainder light brown, with rather thick whitish pubescence. 

 Thorax : dorsum shining black, prothorax yellosvisb ; pleurae dark 

 brownish black. Scutellura black, a little pale on underside ; meta- 

 notum dark blackish bro^\ n. Abdomen black, the first tA\ o segments 

 with a brownish tinge, a few pale hairs ; belly similar. The geni- 

 talia (not easily seen) appear to consist of a dark rather pointed 

 pair of claspers bearing an elongate yellow finger-like appendage 

 near the tip, and a pecuhar large leaf- shaped wliitish scale; there 

 is also a comparatively small ventral V-shaped blackish plate. 

 Legs rather bright yellow, base of the femora a little brownish,, 

 tarsi darker. (Pore legs missing, except coxae.) Wings grey, the 

 apical third and front border a little darker. Venation normal. 

 Halteres deep yello\\-, rather large. 



Length 4 millim. 



Described from a single male from Darjiling, taken by myself,. 

 29.V.10. 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



Owing to the drying of the wings the subcostal vein is not 

 apparent, and I am under the impression that in this species it 

 may be absent. 



Genus LEPTOMOEPHUS, Curt. (PI. II, fig. 1.) 

 Leptomorphus, Curtis, Brit. Entom. p. 365 (1831). 



GrENOTTPE, L. walheri, Curt. ; by original designation. 



Head small, round, much narrower than the thorax, nearly 

 hemispherical, slightly flattened, placed low upon the thorax ; 

 proboscis somewhat projecting ; eyes oval, emarginate at the base 

 of the antennse; ocelli three in number, placed in a flattened 

 triangle on the front, the middle one smaller than the laterals. 

 Palpi cylindrical, incurved, four-jointed, the 1st joint very small, 

 the 3rd nearly twice as long as the 2nd, the 4tli somewhat longer 

 than the 3rd. Antennge long, filiform, projecting forward, 

 16-jointed ; the basal joints differentiated, the 2ud small, with 

 setse at the tip ; the flagellar joints cylindrical, somewhat com- 

 pressed, pubescent. Thoran' short, oval, highly arched ; mesonotum 

 with setse only at the sides ; nietanotum high, strongly arched. 

 Abdomen very long, slender, nearly linear, compressed, seven- 

 jointed, with short terminal joint ; the male with moderate forceps. 

 Legs long, slender, the tibiae ^^•ith long spurs and very minute 



