262 DIPTERA NEMATOCERA. 



Erioptera subfusca Edw. 



Mt. Penrissen, 3000 feet— 2 cf . 



Ilisia fene strata de Meij. 

 Mt. Murud, bead camp, November — 1 cT- 



E^rPEDA gracilis de Meij. 



Mt. Penrissen, 3000 feet— 19 . 



Empeda poienis sp. n. 



9 . Head ashy-grey. Antennae and palpi blackisb-brown, 

 flagellar segments shortly oval. Thorax dull brownish och- 

 reous ; scutellum and prothorax rather lighter, but no distinct 

 whitish stripe at the edge of the mesonotum as in E. gracilis. 

 Ahdomen brownish. Legs v^idth the coxae and trochanters 

 ochreous. remainder dark brown, without scales. 



Wings hyaline; vein light brown; venation as in E. gracilis. 

 Knob of halteres darkened. 



Length of body 3.5 mm. ; wing 3.5 mm. 



Mt. Poi, 5200 feet— 19. 



This may possibly be a variety of the European E. nuhila 

 Schum., from which the only ob\^ous distinction is in the dark- 

 ened knob of the halteres. E. gracilis de Meij. is much less 

 closely allied as it has scaly legs. 



GONOT^fYIA <'PROGONOirYIA) BRUNNESCENS sp. n. (Plate 10, fig. 



36.) 



9 . Head dark brown above; proboscis, palpi and scape of 

 antennae ochreous; flagellum dark brown, segments elongate 

 oval. Thorax with the ground-colour ochreous-brown, prae- 

 scutum somewhat darker, especially on the anterior ends of the 

 three faintly indicated stripes ; scutellum yellowish ; postnotum 

 and pleurotergites blackish ; a large blackish patch on the an- 

 episternite, and a dark brown patch on the sternopleurite. 

 Ahdomen brownish, hypopygium as figured. Legs rather dark 

 brown. Wings with a sliglit greyish tinge ; stigma and a dis- 

 tinct shade across the cord darker. Venation almost as in 

 G. nigripes Brun. Halteres whitish. 



Length of body 6 mm. ; wing 8 mm. 



Mt. Murud, head camp, November — 1 o*. 



