ALLA-CTOIfEURA. — ODOXTOPODA. 89 



more or less yellowish, rest of flagellum black, antennae as long as 

 the bead and tborax togetber. Thorax blackish, witb very minute 

 black setae, that in certain lights appear as a dull silvery sbeen, 

 lateral bristly hair stronger. Sides of tliorax, scutellum and 

 metauotum black, scutellum witb two long apical curved bristles 

 tliat cross one anotber. Abdomen black, with a narrow basal 

 Avhitish band on tbe segments, very variable in its nature and 

 sometimes practically absent. Genitalia of male prominent below 

 the last segment of the abdomen, with two nearly straight claspers, 

 which have black hairs on the underside and on the innerside are 

 provided A\ith hook-shaped tips ; of female very small, yellowish. 

 Legs pale whitish yellow ; coxae very large, a little black at base and 

 tip ; femora witb the fore pair only a little black at tip, middle pair 

 broadly black-tipped and hind pair wholly black or nearly so ; tibiae 

 and tarsi blackish, the latter the darker, tibial spurs yellowish, 

 innerside of fore tibiae pale yellowish ; the tibiae of three very 

 unequal lengths : the fore pair quite short, the middle pair distinctly 

 longer but relatively short, the hind pair of normal size compared 

 with other genera in this family. Wings pale grey, broadly 

 blackish at tip, the colour covering about the apical third, the depth 

 of shade and the extent varying. Venation in accordance with 

 the generic description. 



Length 5 millim. 



Described (the female only) from several of that sex ni the Indian 

 Museum from Svlhet, l.i. 5 {Lt.-Ool. Hall); Thamaspur, Nepal, 

 18-20. ii. 08; Peradeniya, Ceylon, 10-30. vi. 10 and lo.viii. 10 

 (both Gravely) ; Semarang, Java (named by de Meijere), :i. and 

 iii. 06 (Jacobson). In my collection from Peradeniya, Ceylon, ix. 

 and xii. 09 (Green). 



The description, so far as it applies to the male only, is in- 

 corporated from Dr. de Meijere's description as 1 have not seen 

 a male myself. The author of the species says the sexes arealike, 

 except that in the female the last abdominal segment is shorter 

 than the preceding and is dark brown. He also observes that this 

 species must be akin to Mycetophila obscurata, Walk., described 

 from Salawatti. 



The black body, yellowish white, black-tipped coxae and anterior 

 femora, and wholly black hind femora, reddish face and base 

 of antennae, and smoky tips to the wings, make the species a 

 conspicuous one. The wings show a great tendency to fold up in 

 all the specimens I have seen. 



Genus ODONTOPODA, Aldr. (PI. I, fig. 16.) 



Odontopoda, Aldrich, Ptep. Geol. Indiana, xxi, p. 187 (1898). 

 Proanaclima, Meuuier, Monog-. Mycetoph. p. 145 (1904). 



Genotype, 0. sai/i, Aldr. 



Head : ocelli three, all large, placed nearly in a straight line ; 

 antennae 16-jointed, the two basal joints differentiated, those of 

 the flagellum cylindrical, the 1st flagellar joint the longest. Palpi 



