Mr. C. G. Lamb on Exotic Chloropidse. 337 



black bristles, the others with short ones ; pleura all shining 

 black. 



Wings perfectly typical, with widened 1st posterior cell, 

 glassy, with brown veins. Halteres with black head and 

 orange stalk. 



Legs very robust, long, front coxa noticeably so, all clothed 

 with strong dense hairs except beneath the femur, where the 

 hairs become almost bristles, as mentioned above, especially 

 on the front pair ; in colour entirely pitchy black, except the 

 tarsi, which are whitish yellow, with the terminal joints 

 blackened ; the tarsi all densely haired. 



Abdomen (fig. 10) all shining black, with palish hairs, 

 except for a large triangular area on the 2nd segment, which 

 is quite bare. The whole abdomen is flattened, pointed, oval 

 in profile ; the second segment is as long as all the others 

 together, and the basal segments have a deep central axial 

 sulcus. Iu side-view one can see a well-developed, though 

 small, free hypopygium, which is shining black and hairy, 

 except for a side protuberance, which is orange. 



Size 3£ mm. 



Natal: Durban (F. Muir, Camb. Coll.). 



This species seems to be an early step towards Dactylo- 

 thyrea. 



Dactylothyrea, de Meijere. 

 D. hyalipennis, de Meijere. 



There are several specimens, both <$ and $ , which agree 

 with the description of this Javanese species ; it is not quite 

 certain that they are the same, as no numerical relation 

 between the relative lengths of " fingers " and thorax is given 

 by de Meijere. In the present specimens there is a very 

 small additional finger basal to the two main ones, carrying 

 a small spine. There appears to be no valid reason for 

 separating them as a distinct species. 



CEYLON : Peradeniya (J. C. F. Fryer, Camb. Coll.). 



LONCHONOTUS, gen. no v. 



There is a series of a handsome Meroscinid from Durban 

 which offers some difficulty. It appears to be another 

 "linking" species. The general facies is that of a large 

 Meroscinis, approximating to validissima, but with quite 

 ordinarily shaped and clothed legs ; the wings are veined 

 like those of Dactylothyrea, having almost parallel veins and no 

 widening at the springing of 4th ; the scutellum is long, with 



