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the tip ; coxfe shining brown, nearly hare ; tihiae with distinct, 

 soft pubescence ; tips of tarsi black. Winr/s clear, with brown 

 marks ; a stripe on the marginal cross-vein from the costa to the 

 5th longitudinal vein ; a stripe from the costa to the 4th vein, 

 just before the middle of the wing ; a stripe, narrowing hind- 

 wards, from the costa diagonally to the inner side of the discal 

 cell, with a small spot on the costa just in front of it, and a 

 shorter stripe beyond the longer one, and joined to it by a narrow 

 costal band ; a Y-shaped spot on costa near tip, the stem of the 

 latter reaching the 3rd longitudinal vein ; a very small aj^ical spot, 

 and a small spot at tip of each vein on the posterior margin of 

 the wing, with a larger, longer one behind the 7th longitudinal 

 vein. The cross-veins are narrowly clouded, as are most of the 

 veins on the posterior half of the distal part of the wing. 

 Halteres yellowish. 



Length 3 milliin. 



Described from a type male from Kurseong, 4-9. ix. 09 {Annan- 

 dale), a type female from Darjiling, 8-11. viii. 09 (Paiva), and 

 other specimens of both sexes from the same localities, Mith one 

 from Kurseong, 27. vi. 10 {Aymandale). 



Tijpes in the Indian Museum. 



(:}enus EPHELIA, Scli. 



Elacopliila, Rondani, Dipt. Ital. Prod, i, p. 182 (1856). 

 Bphelia, Schiner, Wieu. Eut. Monats. vii, p. 222 (1863). 

 ? Nasiterna, VValleugren, Eut. Tidskr. ii, p. 179 (1881). 



Genotype, Lhnnobia mannorata, Mg., the first of the two species 

 placed in his genus by Schiner; by present designation. 



This genus differs from Limnophila only by the presence of a 

 supernumerary cross-vein in the second basal cell ; and a different 

 structure of the male genitalia, of which the outer horny appendages 

 are stout, blunt, and bifid at the tip. The antennae are short 

 in both sexes, the wings comparatively broad and spotted with 

 darker marks. The male genitalia have the terminal (second) 

 joint of the claspers bifid ; in the female H\e ovipositor is long, 

 slender, and gently curved as usual. 



liange. Europe only (except for the two new species now 

 introduced). 



A genus of limited extent, built on a rather slender character, 

 unless the male genitalia prove to be consistently different from 

 those of Limnophila in all the species. 



The two Indian species are immediately recognised by their 

 difference in size : — 



Length 4^ milliin fascipen?ns, sp. n. 



Length 9 millim ornata, sp. n. 



