the Subfamily Bruchomyiine. 439 
before the fork of M,,5. Cuy.short, gently curved, reaching 
margin just before the level of the apex of Rs. Halteres 
normal, 
Length of body about 4 mm.; wing 4 mm. 
Described from a male and female (the female without 
legs) in the British Museum (Geological Department), both 
included in the same piece of amber, and labelled “ No. 13958, 
Museum Stantien & Becker. 413. Dr. R. Klebs. 92. 74. 
Amber, East Prussia. Transf. from Zool. Dept., 15 Dec., 
1904. In. 18687.” The specimens are in beautiful preser- 
vation, and perfect except for the legs. 
[ do not. consider that Alexander is justified in referring 
Bruchomyia to the Tanyderide at all, since apart from the 
general hairiness of the body it shows many points of resem- 
blance to the Psychodids, particularly the Phlebotomine 
(though differing from the other members of the Phlebotominee 
in having a five-branched radius). 
In response to an enquiry, my friend M. A. Tonnoir, of 
the Brussels Museum, writes that he has examined an 
example of Palwosycorax among his amber specimens, and 
that he considers both this genus and Bruchomyia to belong 
to the Psychodidee, and to be related to Phlebotomus rather 
than to Sycoraz, as Meunier supposed to be the case. 
It seems to me highly probable that both these genera 
are related to the very imperfectly known Nemopalpus, 
Macquart, and the three genera together (when Nemopalpus 
is better known it may be found identical with one of the 
others) might be regarded as forming a third subfamily of 
Psychodidee—the Nemopalpine. There are great discrep- 
ancies in the figures given by Macquart of the venation of 
Nemopalpus ; the one in Webb and Berthelot’s Hist. Nat. 
des Iles Canaries shows the greatest resemblance to Brucho- 
myta or Paleosycorax, and is probably the most accurate, but 
even this figure is probably not exact. From tie data con- 
cerning Nemopalpus given by Haton (Knt. Mo. Mag. xv. 
p- 55, 1904), it would appear that this genus has a long 
proboscis like Phlebotomus. 
The superficial resemblance to Molophilus, already noted 
by Alexander in the case of Bruchomyia, is even greater in 
the case of Paleosycorax; hence the specific name. Meunier 
also was struck by the resemblance to Hrioptera (sens. lat.), 
and considered that the genus was to some extent transitional 
between the Psychodidze and the Hriopterini. 
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