﻿AUSTRALASIAX STILT-LEGGED FLIES — STEYSKAL 171 



Tlie >vhole insect is otherwise as in tlie typical race, the thoracic 

 dorsum of both races Lu<i;ely brownish pruinose, the antennae and 

 palpi bhickish apically, and the frons reddish anteriorly. 



Types. — Holotype male, allotype female, and tliree each male and 

 female paratypes, U.S.N.M. No. 58982, Caroline Islands: Kusaie 

 Island (Lele), August 21, 1940 (H. K. Townes No. 1815) : paratypes, 

 four each males and females, same locality, August 19, 191() (Oakley 

 No. 1726) ; four females, Kusaie Island (Mount Tafeyat), 500 to 800 

 feet, August 2, 1946 (H. K. Townes No. 1812) ; five males, three fe- 

 males, Majuro Atoll (Majuro Village), August 28, 1940 (H. K. 

 Townes Nos. 1989, 1992). 



Genus MIMOMYRMECIA Frey 



11, MIMOMYRMECIA TESSELLATA Frey 



Figure 72, e-K 



Mimomymiecia tessellata Fri:y, Not. Ent., vol. 7, p. 75, 1927. — Bbyan, Proc. 

 Hawaiian Ent. Soc, vol. S, p. 34, 19o2. — Hennig, Konowia, vol. 14, p. 309, 1935. 



Philippine Islands: Luzon (Mount Maquiling), 7 specimens; 

 (Mount Banahao), 2 specimens; (Los Banos), 2 specimens; (Limay, 

 Bataan), 1 specimen; (Manila), 1 specimen; Negros Occiclentale 

 (Victoria) 1 specimen. 



Examination of the above material has revealed that the genus is 

 definitely taeniapterine, rather than trepidariine, as Hennig, in the 

 lack of material, presumed it to be. It will run in my key to the genera 

 of African and Oriental Taeniapterinae (1947, p. 6) to couplet 3, the 

 first three characters of the first alternative suit. The arista, how- 

 ever, is plumose. The affinities seem to lie definitely with Gram/ini- 

 comyia^ but the development of the back of the head into three pro- 

 tuberances distinguishes Mimomyr'mecia from any other Paleotropical 

 genus. 



TOWNESA, new genus 



Genotype. — Townesa spinosa, new species. 



Very similar to MimegraUa, to which genus it will run in my key 

 (1947, p. 6), agreeing in all particulars. The type of Mimegralla., M. 

 coeruleifrons (Macquart), as well as all otlier species of Mimegralla 

 known to me, has no armature of any kind on the fore femora. 

 Townesa^ however, has a row of 8 to 12 strong bristles nearly as long 

 as the diameter of the femora along the whole length of each lower 

 side of the fore femora of the male, and 3 to 5 similar but somewhat 

 smaller bristles on each side of the apical half of the fore femora of 

 the female. The legs are very long and uniformly slender; the first 



